A Smoke-Free Tertiary Education Environment

Not everyone is yet aware that although second-hand smoke is dangerous to health, the danger doesn't stop there because there is also third-hand smoke to consider.
To those who feel that third-hand smoke is a conspiracy to rob smokers of their right to smoke in addition to guilt tripping them, here is an article from Scientific American that defines and documents the dangers of third-hand smoke.
Here's yet another article from the reputable Mayo Clinic.
There are too many articles about the reality of third-hand smoke to include here. So, given that so much has already been written about the dangers of smoking, second and third-hand smoke, it would be wise for those of us who don't smoke to be aware of those who do smoke around us. After all, those of us who choose not to smoke would really rather not bring home to our loved ones second and third-hand smoke. It simply isn't fair for those who have chosen to be non-smokers to pay the cost of being exposed, unwittingly, to second and third-hand smokes.
It is true that smokers have a right to choose whatever lifestyle pleases them, but then, non-smokers, infants and young children who cannot yet choose for themselves, have a right to clean air and physical surroundings free of residual nicotine and other chemicals.
About.com had this to say about the chemicals in cigarettes: "The list of 599 additives approved by the US Government for use in the manufacture of cigarettes is something every smoker should see. Submitted by the five major American cigarette companies to the Dept. of Health and Human Services in April of 1994, this list of ingredients had long been kept a secret."
Smokers are empowered in that they can choose to stop smoking, hopefully, before it's time to pay up for the tar in the lungs and the dingy yellow on what used to be white walls!