<p>how smoky are the floors/dorms that allow smoking? do most people on them smoke?</p>
<p>Floors that allow smoking will fluctuate in how many people smoke, though someone else could answer that better. I live right below a smoking floor, however, and I don’t smell it at all on my hall - it’s not going to stink up the entire dorm. If it did, I’d have a problem, because I hate smoke :D</p>
<p>Most of the smoking halls / dorms only have a few people that smoke. I thought that it was going to be an issue, but honestly, all of the smokers that I’ve met have been more than willing to not smoke around me or to sit in a different part of the hallway if it’s an issue. Smoking halls / dorms tend to be a bit less strict in terms of other rules and more freeform in terms of their hall / dorm governments, in my experience.</p>
<p>My hall likes to say that we’re not a smoking / cat hall, we just don’t tell people what they can and can’t do. But honestly, don’t rule a place out just because they smoke unless you have severe allergies. People will be more than happy to accomodate you and it’s really not that bad.</p>
<p>Yes, people smoke in smoking halls, if you don’t like coming home to the smell of smoke, or walking by people smoking in the lounge, don’t live on one of those halls. It’s dumb when people move to these halls/dorms and then complain that the smoke bothers them.</p>
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<p>If you don’t want to be around smoke, you shouldn’t live on a smoking hall. It’s such an easy concept to grasp and there are so many good living options out there that it’s just plain annoying for people to get tunnel vision about a few places only to cause themselves and other people grief later on.</p>
<p>On one hand, I think pebbles is right - if you don’t want to be around smoke, don’t live on a smoking hall.</p>
<p>On the other hand, I came from a state (Kentucky) where a huge percentage of the population smokes and is often really rude about it toward the people who don’t smoke. At first I didn’t want a smoking hall because that was my understanding of what a smoking hall would be like. Then I ended up on one (which I would have put at the top of my list to begin with had it not been a smoking hall), and found out that it was fine.</p>
<p>My point was more if you’re thinking ‘ZOMG I love this hall / dorm and would totally live here except I’m concerned that I’m going to be enveloped in a cloud of smoke 24/7’ don’t worry about it. Obviously if you’re dead-set against smoking and are going to be lecturing everyone about how we’re going to get cancer or constantly having asthma attacks, we don’t really want you to live with us anyway…</p>
<p>But don’t let the smoking be the only thing stopping you from living on a smoking hall unless it is a serious, serious issue, which, for the OP, it doesn’t seem to be, because I doubt he/she would even consider any of these places if they were Dead Set Against Smoking.</p>
<p>People tend to underestimate how much things like smoke, noise, etc will bother them, because they’re willing to overlook these things in their initial excitement. Just think, the most excited you’ll be about this new place is your freshman year. After that, you just get older and crankier and tired-er and just want to come home to a comfortable place after another long-ass day in lab. Keep that in mind :)</p>
<p>Recently, there’s been some strife among friends re: the issue of smoking. All are very reasonable people that may or may not have made a poor choice in housing. I tend to sympathize w/ smokers in these cases, they’re a really persecuted bunch around here, about the only place left for anyone to smoke freely is in their homes. So, just make sure it’s something you can really live with, as in, you don’t have to be “Dead Set Against Smoking” to be bothered by it and to even consider transferring halls/dorms later on because of it. It’s a real issue and it deserves serious consideration.</p>