<p>Ironically, at my kids’ school, they say that most of the nursing majors are smokers.</p>
<p>^ wow that’s pretty ironic. and i’m not a smoker and hope to never be one either =D
the whole smoking thing just doesn’t appeal to me.</p>
<p>i smoke because it’s cool.</p>
<p>i went to a 40,000+ top research university in canada for undergrad. i go to a 35,000+ top research university in the states for grad school.</p>
<p>At American University tons of kids smoke. Not appealing.</p>
<p>StrangeLight, you’re kidding @ cool, right?</p>
<p>I go to the University of Washington and I don’t see many smokers outside of the hipsters, which make up maybe 1 in 20 students. I’m sure lots of social smoking takes place at those frat parties I never go to, though.</p>
<p>I myself smoke about a pack a day. The following is a picture of me dressed as a crab telling you to deal with it.
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<p>Koreans are chimneys</p>
<p>Smoking is cool. But I’d rather be uncool if that’s what the world thinks. Cause if I’m uncool, I could still be hot.</p>
<p>Yep, smoking is cool (heavy sarcasm intended). Watching and taking care of each of my parents as they suffered and eventually died from the effects of smoking is not something I wish on anyone. I understand the addiction. I don’t understand people still starting to smoke with both the physical and financial toll.</p>
<p>I find it amusing that no matter how poor people are in Hong Kong, they still manage to find the money (40 dollars) to buy a pack of cigarettes.</p>
<p>40 dollars? ****, I thought seven bucks for some American Spirits was bad.</p>
<p>I noticed a lot of kids at Drexel smoked cigarettes, mostly because its in the city.</p>
<p>I’m a smoker trying to quit before college haha, college is going to make it even tougher I suppose.</p>
<p>I would prefer my roommate not to smoke or she is going to be sleeping outside.</p>
<p>Y’all are ridiculous. Why would the number of smokers play a role in your college decision in any way? I could see how people get irritated by breathing second hand smoke for a long period of time in an enclosed space (such as inside an airplane) but honestly is breathing in a little bit of secondhand smoke while walking into a library that big a deal? It is not going to cause health problems!! It takes years and years of heavy firsthand smoking to develop lung cancer and unless you have emphesema or something, breathing some is not going to hurt you!! I have never enjoyed smoking myself (dipping Copenhagen is wayyyyy better 
), I just don’t understand all of these people who think it is such a HUGE deal and that they are getting lung cancer by being within fifty feet of someone smoking outside jeez. And just because your kid is going to college and there are other people smoking DOESNT MEAN HE IS GOING TO SMOKE!! There is something called personal responsibility, as much as liberals want to deny it…</p>
<p>I would guess that the percentage of smoking in a university age population could be estimated by knowing the student’s backgrounds. International students, especially males who come from asia where as many as 2/3 males smoke would increase the prevalence.
Students who have parents with less education would also be more likely to smoke. State residency would also probably show an effect with those coming from the west less likely to smoke. Mormon religion would also decrease the prevalence. This would be an interesting sociology or statistics research idea. I would think that this work has already been done.</p>
<p>Why would the number of smokers play a role in my, or anyone else’s, college decision? For the same reason that people care about food and dorm quality. Will it kill you to eat bad cafeteria food or sleep in a tiny dorm room for four years? Certainly not–but it affects one’s quality of life and is thus a valid criteria to consider. Breathing secondhand smoke impacts many nonsmokers’ quality of life.</p>
<p>i smoke on and off but when i do smoke i dont just smoke socially (driving and smoking is too attractive). the way i see it, after college i wont smoke anymore so best live it up now. i’m going to college next year and can’t see why the number of smokers should play any role as it’s the school that will set you up for life…i guess the only important question about smoking is on your dorm application matching the smokers with smokers and such</p>
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Some people care about more than just getting a degree–the college experience is also important, and smoking adversely impacts it.</p>
<p>“after college I won’t smoke anymore”</p>
<p>Good luck with that… I don’t know what year you are but if you’re a freshman and you smoke all four years, you’re gonna find it’s a hell of a lot harder to quit.</p>
<p>Here’s my personal experience:</p>
<p>I go to NYU and the student body is filled with so-called “hipsters” who decide smoking is the best way to look cool and associate yourself with a certain crowd. Honestly, a lot of these smokers can’t even ash their cigarettes properly and/or don’t know how to smoke in a way that respects the space of non-smokers in the group. </p>
<p>I’m an international student from Europe and I pick up the habit off and on. I’m off right now and I better stay that way. Freshman year, I smoked a pack a night on weekends (but never during the week/day). Peer pressure got to me. Whatever, don’t judge. Group pressure gets to the best of us sometime or another. Towards summertime I stopped because I was afraid my parents would find out. That was a pretty stupid reason to quit; later I learned that quitting on your own accord is the only way to successfully quit, otherwise you’ll start again. And I did start again, sophomore year. </p>
<p>On Halloween I went to a cool party but found myself completely disinterested and I started chain-smoking. 20 cigarettes later, this gorgeous girl comes up and asks me for a cigarette and we start talking and BAM! We click. We talk and dance all night BUT, I never make a move or even ask her for her number because I couldn’t be bothered at all. A wasted opportunity…</p>
<p>In hindsight I realized that it was the cigarettes’ fault. They made it too easy for me to stay in my social comfort zone and not make an effort at all. Since October 31st I haven’t even touched a cigarette. Moral of the story? Smoking might make you look cool, but you won’t act it. If you don’t give a damn about your health, fine that’s your choice, but if you smoke to take advantage of the trade-off between future well-being and present social prominence you’re not getting 100% of your end of the bargain. </p>
<p>Now whenever someone asks me if I smoke or if I have a spare cigarette, I tell them I quit. I get a lot of respect for it, even from people who love smoking to death. My tip to those dying to fit-in? If someone asks you if you smoke and you don’t want to look uncool, just tell them you quit. Simple as that!</p>
<p>Edit: @DCHurricane: Hong Kong uses different dollars from the US. 1 USD is almost 8 HK dollars.</p>