<p>You or your child may want to add this to your search criteria. As smoking rates on college campuses have continued to increase more schools as well as state legislatures are enacting smoking bans on campuses across the country. See the link Colleges and Universities with Smokefree Policies to find campuses that are 100% or partially smoke free :</p>
<p>New York State joins Wisconsin, New Jersey and Illinois in banning smoking in dorms - Governor David Paterson has signed a bill that becomes law as of next month that will ban smoking within any college dorm or residence, public or private. </p>
<p>I'm surprised to learn there are any dorms that actually allow smoking. I guess I take those things for granted here in California. The next thing you know someone will be telling me they still have smoking sections in restaurants in other places.</p>
<p>^^Feel free to visit the Hoosier state, where ~30% of people smoke and you get the joy of choking up everywhere you go. Only a few years ago, the employees at most hospitals (including the major/well known childrens' hospital in Indianapolis) all congregated right at the entrances so you had to walk through the stink and haze to even get into the hospital. Lovely for anyone; especially so for small children with asthma.</p>
<p>Yes, it is so rare that I see anyone smoke that it seems completely gone here in CA. Since I teach elementary school, no one can smoke anywhere on the property and no one can smoke in any restaurants or bars here anymore. I think they even banned smoking on some beaches. It's awesome!</p>
<p>I'm asthmatic and smoke is one of my triggers. I was ecstatic when NJ instituted the 'no smoking in restaurants' law. I can now go out to eat and not have to worry about ending up in the hospital due to a reaction to the second hand smoke. I still have to hold my breath many times when I go into places, because employees are directly outside the doors smoking.</p>
<p>S goes to school in PA and the university has a no smoking in the dorms regulation.</p>
<p>My college doesn't allow smoking in the dorms, but there are still a huge number of smokers--far more than I expected. There are many students who begin smoking while at college.</p>
<p>I can't imagine a college allowing students to smoke inside the dorms (though that doesn't stop people from smoking other stuff in their rooms). My college does not allow students to smoke inside buildings, but I think it would be near impossible to enforce a no smoking on campus considering that we are in a city and have a major hospital on campus. How does a school like Indiana enforce no smoking outdoors on campus? Most schools cannot enforce underaged drinking, drugs, and other stuff, so how effective are they at no smoking?</p>
<p>I don't get the new smoking ban at N.Y. colleges. When we started looking for our son five years ago we were told there was no smoking in the dorms at any SUNY school. He never had any complaints about smoking once he started. I wish people would lobby as hard to ban underage drinking,drug use, and pot smoking in the dorms, they have health consequences as well. As for any public space in N.Y. no smoking has been the law for five or six years now even at entrances to buildings and some parking lots. Many public parks are going smoke free as well. You can however still get bombed out of your mind if you like, just don't smoke while you do it.</p>
<p>^I go to a school where underaged drinking and drug use are both not allowed (maybe because my college adheres to laws set by the government). However, at least for alcohol, there is little more than a slap on the wrist. It would be terrible if a college has steeper punishments for smoking than for drinking.</p>
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I wish people would lobby as hard to ban underage drinking,drug use, and pot smoking in the dorms, they have health consequences as well.
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Those are already legally banned. Like with the banned cigarette smoking though, the effectiveness depends on the enforcement and willingness for people to embrace the ban.</p>
<p>I was discussing this issue with a young coworker who told me the social scene moved outdoors because of no smoking in the dorm rules at her school. She started smoking because it seemed like the thing to do since that's where the socializing took place. Fortunately she was able to quit after leaving school.</p>
<p>My daughter has a strong preference to be in a non-smoking environment. I remember reading a guide book a while back that included mentions of "almost everbody smokes" for campuses where that was the norm. That sort of thing may change over time but I'd be interested to know schools where that description may apply.</p>
<p>The rest of the indoor, and near the doors outside, campus at UW-Madison is smoke free as well (banning smoking within x feet of doors is necessary to prevent having to pass through the smoke, especially important for winter when smokers would otherwise huddle near doorways). Making living quarters smoke free is one more step for universities to take. Also, the city has banned smoking in many places, making going off campus equally pleasant. Now, if they could only eradicate the state's drinking habits (the laws/rules are in place, but it has been part of too many of the ethnic groups that settled the state to easily change).</p>
<p>My school has a few smoking dorms (a relatively small percentage of housing), where students can smoke in their rooms with the doors closed. Both smokers and tolerant non-smokers live there, with most of the population being people who smoke...other things...and like being able to smoke these things in their rooms without the smoke alarms going off. </p>
<p>I think it's actually good to have designated smoking dorms, because some kids are going to smoke either way. This way the non-smokers don't have to deal with them, whereas if all the dorms were smoke-free, the smokers would be covertly smoking in all the dorms, creating many more problems.</p>
<p>Students and parents should be aware not only of the applicable laws but also of the general campus culture. For example, smoking is prohibited in UChicago dorms, but the school has a larger smoking population than most of its peers.</p>
<p>etselec, that also seems to be the case for for many of the schools not listed in the link. There are also some schools (like Tufts, Wash U for example) that have banned smoking in the residences - however there may be smoking allowed on satellite campuses or in grad dorms, so they aren't listed. It does seems that many schools have changed policies in just the last few years. Some seem to be working counterintuitively. Haverford, for example, is a totally smoke free campus with the <em>exception</em> of the residence halls, where ability to smoke is only limited by whether or not roommates/suitemates agree. </p>
<p>With studies that show that former nonsmokers are 40% more likely to pick up the habit if they live in a dorm where smoking is allowed, not to mention risk of fire and second hand smoke inhaled by hallmates, and alarming rates of college aged students smoking, I honestly can't see why ANY school continues to permit this. </p>
<p>At any rate, I'm not sure I agree that it's better to have specific smoking dorms. While some students would sneak around to smoke, others would just take it outside or off campus if they know they aren't allowed to smoke in the halls/were regularly confronted by others on the hall. Of course, none of this addresses what goes on in off campus housing or fraternities/sororities. </p>
<p>As for considering reputation - that's true. I think the Princeton Review guide among others gives a run down on campus culture that includes smoking.</p>
<p>There are designated smoking areas in many colleges. They're conveniently located for smokers in case a nicotine craving comes in and non-smokers can bypass those areas easily. There are also ash trays in those areas so there's no excuse for leaving cigarette butts around.</p>
<p>It amazes me that so many college students smoke. These are otherwise intelligent people brought up in an age of awareness as to the hazards of smoking yet they still start smoking - usually in the age-old attempt to 'fit in' with their peers.</p>