Show Senate proposes south cafeteria to be no smoking Christa McKinnon Managing Editor HE Student Senate T THE is designing a resolution to ban smoking in the south cafeteria according to Dennis Butler senate senat Butler said the resolution deals with a a. h health aIth issue that hat needs to be addressed We would like our students 10 to 15 years from now to still b be e alumni he h stated st ted According to the American Cancer Society smoke in tightly confined spaces s is is' dangerous to non- non smokers An IAn estimate published published published pub pub- in a National Academy of Sciences report on involuntary involuntary involuntary in in- voluntary smoking said that in il 1985 at least lung cancer deaths occurred because because because bel be be- l cause of second-hand second smoke In addition nearly three percent percent percent per per- cent of the annual lung can can- ter death toll may be caused by involuntary smoking The American Cancer r Society also claims daims that the smoky air within a building may also be harmful Curtis Smout director of College Center facilities stated that usually smokers are not as neat as non non- smokers On that basis I would prefer a smoking non-smoking environment Smout also said that he is sensitive to peoples people's s rights but he is is' caught in the cross I Im I'm m damned if I do and Im I'm I damned if I dont don't he said Butler mentioned that certain certain certain tain persons who frequent the south cafeteria stay forlong for forlong forlong long periods of time H He maintained this problem excludes excludes excludes ex ex- ex- ex other students stud who would like to eat lunch in the south cafeteria but cannot find a place to sit Butler also mentioned that many stu stu- dents dont don't like to have to eat their meals in a smoking en en- I would like to eat without inhaling smoke he added However according to Paul Gunderson facilities director the south cafeteria is designated smoking while the north cafeteria is designated designated designated non non- smoking non thereby abiding by the Utah Clean Air Act which states there must be two separate te facilities smokers Non are not forced to enter that area area sa said d Gunderson addi adding g gt t that at there are area entrances on the north or or south side of the building which eliminate the hazard for those who dont don't want to expose themselves to smoke However Butler said the Utah law states that nothing requires requites a proprietor to provide a smoking-per- smoking area see Smoke on page 2 V J Smoke i Continued from page 1 Butler also stated that if the College College College Col Col- lege Center were to become smoke free there would be little chance of a separate room or facility to accommodate accommodate accommodate those who would like to smoke It would be prohibitive cost-prohibitive for us Butler said adding that separate air conditioning ventilation and smoke eaters would have to be purchased to create a separate room for the smokers Gunderson also added that banning banning banning ban ban- ning smoking from the College Center Center Center Cen Cen- ter may be considered a form of discrimination Whenever possible and economically feasible we should provide an environment for the smokers But when smokers interfere with smokers non-smokers the preference goes with the non a a. a. a |