<p>^Uh, I meant St. John’s College in Annapolis or Santa Fe (friend visited Annapolis campus).</p>
<p>oh jk jk jk. I thought you meant SJU. My bad!</p>
<p>do most people smoke cigarettes or are there a lot of people who smoke cigarillos and cigars? (swisher sweets and stuff like that)</p>
<p>I’ve heard NYU is also a heavy smoking school.</p>
<p>Go to UCSB. I occasionally see someone smoking in front of the library, but it’s not a big deal.</p>
<p>In my opinion…</p>
<p>People need to stop caring what other people do. That gos for:</p>
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<li><p>People who feel the need to bash anyone who smokes, rant about the hazards of smoking, and/or exclaim how much they hate smoking.</p></li>
<li><p>Anybody who feels peer pressure because “everyone else” smokes (I thought kids were only like that in public sevice announcements)</p></li>
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<p>I’m not a smoker. I don’t have any close friends or relatives who are smokers. But people need to stop their zealous “anti-smoking” brigade and mind their own business. The only time there should be a concern about smoking is when that person is actually affecting other people (i.e, smoking in crowded, public areas).</p>
<p>sdkid at least at my school it was cigarettes. I had a cigarillo once (unless Black & Milds count as cigarettes).</p>
<p>i go to ucla, and am frankly shocked at the few number of smokers(at least on campus) of cigarettes. i would have imagined more. this maybe has to do with me just being an la native and being used to having it around me. you can almost usually see a crowd in front of the library or one or two outside buildings smoking, in front of the library i’ve usually seen smokers who are of armenian or korean descent.
around campus you get more of a mix.
in regards to me, i’m a bit disappointed to say…but i have picked up smoking while at UCLA, not on a regular habit. I usually only smoke while socializing off campus, although during finals weeks or exam weeks, smoking did help de-stress.</p>
<p>WCF - no one in this thread is on a zealous anti-smoking brigade or bashing smoking. The main issue here is that because it’s college, where you may have thousands of people packed into a few acres, its really hard not to affect other people by smoking. College is a crowded, public area. If people smoke at your school, there’s a good chance others you will run into them more than once as stated earlier, a lot of people smoke near the library.</p>
<p>WCF, the problem is that when behaviors become part of a culture, other people adopt those behaviors because we are social animals and we have a tendency toward normative behaviors. See egolikestomach’s comment above. Read the studies about how obesity, smoking, etc. are “contagious” among friends. Read icanread’s comment about how the dominant culture at his or her school dictates that people are “into fitness”. Smoking is more than just smoking; it is an indicator of what a college’s culture is like, and it is also an indicator of how people in that culture value their health. Many people on this thread would like to know what college cultures are like. Additionally, many people do not have the time or money to visit many colleges to see firsthand what is going on, so they rely on CCers to tell it like it is!
Rymd, do you know how to get this list you mentioned?</p>
<p>not too many smokers at cornell, if there are its usually the koreans like previously stated</p>
<p>I go to Georgetown, and it doesn’t seem like that many people smoke (cigs). There’s DC law and university rules that prohibit smoking at entrances, but the few people who do smoke still do it right outside of my dorm and the library. </p>
<p>I don’t get smokers who deny that smoking is disgusting to other people. I understand that you don’t find it gross - clearly, you became a smoker for some reason or another - but other people think it is gross for a reason. As someone with asthma (and a heavy smoker for a mother and two sisters who smoke), secondhand smoke is terrible on my lungs and throat, and smells terrible.</p>
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<p>People used to smoke almost everywhere. On airplanes, in stores and offices, in restaurants (no such thing as a smoking section back in the day), even in doctor’s office waiting rooms and hospitals. I only remember 2 places that seemed to be off-limits: elevators, and church services. </p>
<p>My D attends an LAC in the midwest and she’s been surprised by the number of smokers there. It does have a large number of internationals, and hipsters. D grew up in California which is perhaps the most agressive anti-smoking state in the country, so she’s a little bit shocked to see so many of her peers lighting up; it’s just not the done thing among her age group out here on the coast.</p>
<p>I was kinda surprised to see so many smokers at my school in Cali. I knew California was always, at least in its law books, staunchly against smoking. I figured all the California natives would be all “smoking cigs is bad maaaaan.” A few of them were actually… but then they went and lit up another organic matter, our friend cannabis.</p>
<p>“do most people smoke cigarettes or are there a lot of people who smoke cigarillos and cigars? (swisher sweets and stuff like that)”</p>
<p>I don’t think I’ve ever seen anybody smoke a Swisher filled with tobacco. A few people, including myself, enjoy an occasional Black and Mild, but it’s pretty rare.</p>
<p>Smoking is a nasty habit, and for me, smoking and drinking go hand in hand. Anyway…</p>
<p>One of my teachers–who is now a non-smoker-once told my class to calculate how much money he had wasted on smoking in his lifetime. He’s in his late 40s and started smoking as a teenager. We multiplied no. of packets/day(i forgot the exact number) by 7 days, 52 weeks and something like 25 years. It turned out to be around 60K, which is like a year’s salary. </p>
<p>I don’t understand why people would sacrifice their health and money for smoking. I know people who do it to release stress from their work and exams but I still don’t think it’s worth it, especially when you do a cost-benefit analysis.</p>
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<p>I quit smoking approximately two years ago and haven’t smoked a single cigarette since then. That said, I don’t consider myself off the hook yet. There are moments when I miss my cigs greatly and, occasionally, I still dream about smoking while I’m sleeping. That illustrates how addictive nicotine can be !</p>
<p>I second what DCHurricane said above. If you are thinking about taking up smoking, please DON’T. You’ll regret it for the rest of your life.</p>
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<p>Apologies. Read the first couple of posts and I jumped to conclusions.</p>
<p>Congrats on quitting bruno. Like I said in another post I’m glad I quit before I really got hooked. I’m 22 days without a cigarette and this time I haven’t had any urge to buy at all. I’ve had the opportunity but nope.</p>
<p>Keep up the good work, bruno123!</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, very very few smokers at Stanford. In fact there was an article in the student paper a while back written by a smoker about how annoyed he was at the general anti-smoking attitude on campus.</p>