Dear Editor,
I wrote a letter to the editor last semester about the smoking and perfume issue on campus and I guess it is time for another.
I, like Crystal Diaz, dislike the smoking problem. However, I’ll go one step further. I dislike it for health reasons. I have asthma. I cannot tolerate cigarette smoke or perfume.
This is becoming such a problem all over campus. People insist on blocking the sidewalk behind Rogers-Stout Hall from one end to the other with noxious clouds.
Amanda Paddy says don’t walk behind or near smokers.
You can’t help it sometimes. When the sidewalk has even one smoker on it, I breathe fumes. A person cannot control the wind, either. Also, some perfumes are noxious as well. This is for everyone.
The ashtrays don’t keep the fume clouds off the sidewalks.
Only keeping the smoke off the sidewalks will solve the problem.
Yes, smokers are rude. Smokers don’t understand how the fumes hurt others. The smoke does not stay in your two feet of space, Amanda. It goes all over the place.
Please, for the sake of anyone with breathing problems, be careful where you smoke. You may save them and me another trip to the ER.
Cynthia Canter

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