If Generation Y doesn't wake up, the U.S. is in trouble

Look no further than college campuses to see why the headline is true: College students don’t seem to notice — or care — that their rights are slowly being taken away. In early July, my own University of Michigan joined a long list of at least 530 schools that have banned smoking. This public university implemented a ban on a legal substance across its entire 3,100-acre campus even though, according to the university’s own estimates, 13 percent of the campus population — including faculty, students and staff — are smokers.

And tobacco isn’t just banned from buildings or even the perimeters of buildings, which can be plausibly argued for health reasons, as everyone who doesn’t live under a rock knows by now.