Green Lung Youth Grassroots Movement for Tobacco Control: USM Inspection! Go Go Go!

On 22^nd January, if you were observant enough, you might see a few eccentric human beings wearing glove, wandering around as if they were looking for something on floor. They looked like doing some cleaning works, yet when they saw the litters on the floor, they just ignored them.

Who they are? And what on earth were they doing?

Yes! They’re the Green Lung inspection teams who are on a mission of collecting the cigarette butts found in USM campus.

You may ask. “What for?” For collection purposes or yeah, it’s our hobby anyway? The reason why we did so is simple. We wanna know to what extent USM has been doing to protect her beloved sons and daughters from the evil cigarette smoke.

Now another question pops into your mind. “So what? Cigarette butts mean nothing.”

So if there are cigarette butts, there are smokers.

Again, you may question. “But these cigarette butts may be left by the outsiders (especially those contractors whom you can see so many now in USM)? It may not be doing with our students.”

Smokers just threw the packs into the bush.

Hello? So you mean that outsiders can smoke in our campus in the actual fact that under the Food Act 1983, Control for Tobacco Control Regulation 2004, ALL higher learning institutes (yeah, including USM) are smoke-fee areas. So this suggests that a lot of improvements are needed to control the flow of smokers coming in to USM. And this is not the end of the story! Yes, our students do contribute to this too! And EVEN our Pegawai Keselamatan! Wow, amazing…