Cigarettes are useless. There is a reason the term coffin nail came into use.
Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in the United States. Each year, an estimated 443,000 people die prematurely from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, and another 8.6 million live with a serious illness caused by smoking. Despite these risks, approximately 46.6 million U.S. adults smoke cigarettes.
Coupled with this enormous health toll is the significant economic burden of tobacco use—more than $96 billion a year in medical costs and another $97 billion a year from lost productivity.
The real kicker is the government is ok with this product that kills so many of it's citizens:
In the United States cigarettes are taxed at both the federal and state levels, in addition to any state and local sales taxes and local cigarette-specific taxes.

Between 1998 and 2010, states have collected nearly $244 billion in cigarette taxes and settlement money.

The tobacco industry spent $10.5 billion to market their products in 2008, the most recent year tracked by the Federal Trade Commission. In that same year, state anti-tobacco funding was about $779 million, according to the report.

Makes me crazy to see younger people , college. High school people continuing to
START to smoke...leading to a life of illness, early death.

We need the " higher learning institutions " to take a stand.

When I went to College, NO ONE SMOKED. NOW Everyone smokes in Kent. What the heck? What happened to our EDUCATED community? It's 100 years behind the times. What happened to intellectual intelligent minded thinking? STOP SMOKING and get smart!

Ann, I agree with you but I really am getting nervous about all the control that is going on. You know students will find a way to smoke as they do with drinking. As a country we are taking more and more rights away from the people and it is making me nervous.
Think of the New York law of limiting soft drink sizes...... , no more Happy Meals prizes......etc.

A few questions for the university:
What does the university presently do when someone, a student, employee, or visitor, is caught smoking in a dorm room or any other building? Does the university pay a fine as does a bar owner or a bowling alley or the American Legion? If Kent State adopts a no smoking anywhere on campus rule, what will they do if someone is caught? Is the university prepared to cite anyone for walking across campus with a lit cigarette or cigar or pipe? Does the university evict a student from a dorm room for smoking? Is the university willing to lose a student for endangering the health of others?

Why not acknowledge that smoking Tobacco causes Cancer, Emphysema and Heart Disease and the majority of the people on the KSU Campus and other Public Building do not want to die from those disease's.

So if your concerned about the United States Consitiution and Majority Rule.?

There's your answer....

I'm sorry but I don't think banning tobacco use is going to stop many people from smoking if they want to, it's just going to piss people off. I am not saying I condone smoking but people should be allowed to smoke outside if they want to.

I don't care if people smoke...only if I must breath their smoke and as far as pissing them off ....don't give a Rats Axe !

And I'm NOT sorry.

Well Rex, I see what your saying but they could put them in any of the cigarette disposals around campus.

Smoking Tobacco : CDC

Kills more people than...alcohol...AIDS....car crashes.....illegal drugs....murders...suicide. COMBINED ! Every year.

Get off the control of our freedoms. If they want to stand outside in a corner and smoke...let them! That's their corner...walk around it. No they shouldn't smoke just anywhere but it's their choice. And when I was in school and college everyone smoked...yes here in Kent..so Kent has come a long way...just doesn't need to go too far. Guess no one believes in individual rights any longer..."government knows best!"

I was raised in Kent, and many members of my family have degrees from KSU.
I worked for 32 years at the University of Texas at Austin--several years ago, all the components of the Univ. Texas were declared smoke-free, including outside the
buildings. Although I am now retired, I attend events at UT often, and it is
wonderful to breathe the smoke-free air. I hope KSU adopts a smoke-free policy. It can work.

The University has voted to ban smoking in all areas of the campus beginning in
January of 2013.

Let the whining begin !

I could give a darn if people want to smoke. Do what you want as long as it doesn't harm anyone else. The thing is that smokers are often dirty and inconsiderate about their habit. They smoke near entryways so that others have to smell their nasty and throw cigarette butts all over. You've ruined it for yourselves, tobacco fiends.

This is ridiculous discrimination. Smokers pay SO MUCH in taxes, and we can't even smoke on a PUBLIC campus? If you hate smoking so much, then make it illegal. Don't PUNISH us for doing a LEGAL activity that we spend WAY too much money on (which by the way supports things that YOU ALL enjoy). The kent campus only has one ashtray near my building, and it is at the next building over lol. Yes, cigarette butts are everywhere, you have given us no place to put them!

Sarah ...Do you know where you can put your Cigarette Butt's ?
That's right put them up there !

Well, now that THAT is solved............! Lets talk about,,hmmm.....say.......BENGAZI? Ha. how much wasted energy was just spent discussing smoking a cigarette? (me included).

seems we as a people/society worry about such meaningless stuff anymore...........

I for one am a responsible smoker- save the butts until I find a trash receptacle.. and Marlboro is giving away little tins for smokers to stash the butt until they too can find a trash can.. Companies are aware of the problem- it's up to the people themselves.
I truly wish they would ban drinking for college students in rentals around town.. that would take care of the REAL LITTER that rules the city of Kent !!

The age to purchase cigarettes should be pushed up to 21. This would severly limit college smokers, and also cut off those who become addicted to a readily available product at an impressionable age. Phase it in like the drinking age. It would only hurt those are under 18 and plan on becoming addicted smokers.

age 21. great idea!! Maybe we should consider making crack and herion illegal too? And a 2 liter bottle of pop? Im so glad we can all gather here and solve all the worlds problems :-).