<p>I am headed to college this fall and I want to bring my hookah. Are Hookahs allowed on campus? I plan to use it only for smoking tobacco.</p>
<p>Depends on your campus, if its tobacco free and you’re living in the dorms then probably no since hookah is still a tobacco. If you’re in an off campus housing then knock yourself out</p>
<p>More often than not, a dorm will not allow tobacco products to be used. Most people get around it with chew or cigarettes, but it’ll be a lot harder hiding a Hookah pipe.</p>
<p>I’ve seen people do it… and i’ve seen security and RAs walk right past it. However, they have to be a certain distance away from any dorm.</p>
<p>Ask your school, but I don’t know of any dorms that allow tobacco.</p>
<p>Eric, be careful, not even all off campus housing allows it. We’re not allowed to smoke in my apartment. You have to be outside. Part of the reason I chose it considering I’m terribly allergic to tobacco smoke.</p>
<p>I’ve seen students do hookah outside the dorm doors so I’d assume it is allowed at my school (same rules as cigarettes). Different at every school though</p>
<p>Depends on the school but it’s probably banned in the dorm rooms.</p>
<p>I’ve seen people doing it outside, it’s legal at my school if you’re far enough from a building, 25 feet or something like that. I don’t know if only some kinds are legal. It’s banned in dorm rooms, like smoking is, as far as I know. Off campus would depend on the place.</p>
<p>Ok thanks for all the responses. It makes sense to me that standard tobacco rules would apply. I am just worried that it would be considered “drug paraphernalia” any thoughts on this?</p>
<p>As far as paraphernalia goes, I would think the same legal rules apply to hookah as any other tobacco smoking product. Meaning if it doesn’t have any evidence of being used to smoke illegal substances than you’d be okay, and considering its only hookah you’re smoking, you should be fine. Now as far as school policy goes, you’d have to look into their policy on pipes, etc. and then determine if its allowed or not since it is essentially a large water pipe.</p>
<p>Hookah is legal…you’re good, unless your campus is smoke-free. Smoke outside though. How would they consider it drug paraphernalia if you’re only using tobacco? I don’t know many people who smoke weed out of a hookah anyway, so I don’t even think cops would look twice.</p>
<p>Makes sense. Thanks so much for the help guys!</p>