Welcome to the "smoke-free" Ball State University, where smoke isn't blown in your face; it's blown up your butt.
Beginning Monday, Ball State became a self-proclaimed smoke-free university with 12 designated smoking zones scattered across its campus.
Ball State advertising itself as a smoke-free campus while still allowing smoking in certain areas is like a member of a temeprance society popping open a brew after getting home from work everyday.
The fact is: Ball State cannot have it both ways. It has to decide if it wants to allow people the right to smoke or be a smoke-free campus. Either decision will upset some people, but they're both better than what the university is trying to sell with an advertising ploy that contradicts itself.
Smoke-free means no smoke - none. There are no allowances for designated smoking zones in a smoke-free campus. Once there is smoking, the campus goes from being smoke-free to smoking-restricted.
Smoke-free sounds better than partially smoke free.
By advertising itself as smoke free, Ball State is misrepresenting itself and deceiving others.
Some people are going to buy this deception and actually think that Ball State is smoke free. Then, some of these unsuspecting people will stumble across one of the smoking zones.
Ultimately, Ball State has to make the decision to allow smoking, restricted or unrestricted, and stop the smoke-free campus misrepresentation or not allow smoking at all. Either option is viable and has its pros and cons. Ball State just has to get off the fence and decide which is better for the university.
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