HONOLULU -- The University of Hawaii is further restricting the outdoor areas where smoking is allowed starting Friday.

Roger Nonnweiler, a senior at UH Manoa has been a smoker for 15 years. He's not happy about UH's decision to cutback on the number of outdoor areas where smoking will be allowed.

Smoking will no longer be allowed in building courtyards, breezeways and outdoor dining areas.

"I don't know. I just think it's not right," Nonnweiler said. "It's like taking away my freedom. I have a right to smoke outdoors. It's free air. I don't understand why we can't smoke across the campus."

"I do support it, because I don't smoke and I don't like inhaling the smoke that they make," Roxina Edwin said.

"I think people should be able to do what they want to do, but I know secondhand smoke does affect other people, that's obviously the controversy," Nick Tillinghast said.

Studies have shown that repeated exposure to secondhand smoke can cause lung cancer and can increase the risk of stroke.

Right now, the store at Student Campus Center is the only place tobacco products are sold on campus. After the policy change, tobacco products will no longer be sold there.

"Oh, that would be a problem for me because I usually run out during the day and I'd have to run out of campus to get cigarettes if I really need it," Robert Ardiente said.

Under UH's new tobacco products policy, the tobacco industry will no longer be allowed to sponsor campus events or campus organizations.