Freewrite #1

What really makes me angry is that people around campus don't follow the "Stand 25 ft. from the building to smoke" and George Mason doesn't enforce it either. Smoking is absolutely disgusting to those who don't smoke, especially me, so I just want to be able to walk into the JC or the building where my classroom is without getting smoke blown in my face. It makes me get a headache if I am around it too much and it makes people smell bad. Why people decide to smoke is beyond my capacity to fathom it but I don't think I should suffer from inhaling smoke when I have made a decision not to smoke. Cancer is something that people try and avoid at all costs because it is such a tramatic experience, but people who are smoking are willingly taking the chance at getting cancer. However, research has shown that people who don't smoke are getting cancer at alarming rates because they may live with someone that smokes and enhales smoke just as frequently. So, with secondhand smoke being a huge issue to causing lung cancer, I don't want to have to hold my breath just to avoid getting secondhand smoke. It is inconvient to me. I mean I don't they would appreciate me if I did something they didn't like right in there face all the time. People would start to get angry and probably say something. I, on the other hand, have not said anything to anyone. But I don't want to stay quiet anymore because it isn't just affecting the environment with pollution of those rotten cancer sticks, but also affecting my life. I don't want to, in 20 years, find out I have lung cancer because I don't smoke and I try to avoid it at all costs. Why doesn't the campus make designated smoking areas, enforce the 25 ft. away from the building, or even make this a smoke free campus! Some other colleges have made their campus smoke free, and they are still up and running. Hey, maybe GMU could cause a wide-spread epidemic of making campuses smoke free. Then, we could help those that do smoke and maybe make them quit! It is just such a nasty habit that should be eliminated from the world, but since the world is such a big place, maybe we could just start here at GMU.