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...McCarthy said she is optimistic that theban will encourage students to quit smoking. "Itwas small things that prevented me from becoming asmoker," she said. "This could be one of them...
...instead of rattling its sword, says Shannon, Justice did the clever thing: It passed the potato back to Starr. "Reno tested Starr by saying, 'Take care of this yourself. We'll see how much integrity you have now.' She put Starr in an embarrassing position, and he had to quit." Reno gets to look impartial; Starr gets taken down a notch. And if he wants to move to Malibu, now he'll have...
...while we appreciate the College's concern for our health, we will stop short of dehumanizing smokers as non-citizens. We ask the dean to make programs and counseling services available to smokers who want to quit. At the same time, a limited number of ventilated smoking lounges would give smokers some freedom and warmth, while sparing their non-smoking counterparts from the fumes...
...pushed through the end of the semester and now has such a severe case of RSI that he must use a foot mouse and can only type about one sentence before feeling pain. McDermott told me, "If I knew then what I know now, I would have just quit, and taken the rest of the semester off." As it is, he took the fall semester off because the pain was too severe and gave up his hopes of attaining a master's degree in his fourth year here. At its worst, RSI can make even brushing your teeth or turning...
Lewis recently proposed banning smoking in all residential houses to protect the health of smokers, students contemplating becoming smokers, and their roommates. Lewis hopes that a ban would persuade smokers to quit and dissuade non-smokers from picking up the habit. Wary of objections, Lewis believes his plan is palatable because "there's a lot of sentiment that would favor a complete [prohibition of] smoking among students." Should campus support for a ban not suffice, Lewis adds, "the general trend of society would support doing this...