<p>Do more people smoke in college than in high school? Is it considered cool? What would you do if your roommate smokes?</p>
<p>Most roommate questionaires ask if you smoke. Anyway, smoking generally isn't allowed in dorms.</p>
<p>But what if you don't like the smell of smoke?</p>
<p>If your housing form had a preference for smokers/non smokers, and you checked non, you should be living with a non smoker. If that person lied and comes in smelling like smoke all the time and all your stuff starts smelling like smoke, then you can take it up with the RAs. They might let you switch roommates or work out some kind of agreement.</p>
<p>seriously so many people smoke. but there should be an ordinance saying you can't smoke within x number of feet from the dorms.</p>
<p>it almost makes me want to take it up when I'm chilling out with people - it gives you something to do with your hands as well as a conversation topic. but I don't.</p>
<p>My college didn't have a roommate questionaire. But luckily all 3 of my roommates are non smokers. If I had gotten a smoker roommate, I would have had to talk to my RA about it; the smell makes me pretty sick.
And yes, it's true that a ton of people smoke in college. But thankfully here at UNH, you have to be at least 20 feet from the entrance to a building in order to smoke. But I've been caught behind countless people in the 3 weeks I've been here that were smoking, while walking to class. It seems to be pretty unavoidable.</p>
<p>they smoke, but not cigarettes...</p>
<p>hookah is a big thing on campus as well. some kid from PA even thought they were a school fixture, as if you could go to the front desk and check one out for the night.
that would be pretty tight, but no.</p>
<p>Alot of people seem to smoke at college, even more than in high school. What can you do if people are smoking near the school entrance even though its not allowed? And is it possible to be friends with a smoker if you're a non-smoker?</p>
<p>ugh i hate hookah... gives me headaches.</p>
<p>"And is it possible to be friends with a smoker if you're a non-smoker?"</p>
<p>whoa... you don't already know people who smoke?</p>
<p>People rarely smoke in high school (at least not near the school). </p>
<p>Why do more ppl smoke in college than in high school? Wouldn't their education make them more knowledgable about the dangers of smoking?</p>
<p>And what are the effects of second-hand smoking? If your friends with a smoker, you likely to be exposed to alot of second-hand smoke a day, how detrimental to your health would this be?</p>
<p>Well, for one thing, they can legally smoke in college (easier to get their hands on cigarettes...probably won't make a difference with the other stuff since it's illegal anyway)</p>
<p>There are studies that show that second-hand smoke is at least as bad as, if not worse than, first-hand.
<a href="http://www.cancer.ca/ccs/internet/standard/0,3182,3172_13127__langId-en,00.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.cancer.ca/ccs/internet/standard/0,3182,3172_13127__langId-en,00.html</a>
<a href="http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=35422%5B/url%5D">http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=35422</a>
Google "Second Hand Smoke" for lots more links.</p>
<p>leetwarrior kid - you make it sound as though being friends with a smoker would mean that you're surrounded by a cloud of smoke all day. that's not the case.</p>
<p>I knew a lot of kids in high school who smoked. did they know it was bad for you? of course, we all went through DARE and whatnot. but they still liked it, so more power to them. it's only obnoxious when it's a huge group of people smoking at the same time, like at a concert or something.</p>
<p>Bleh.. smokers stink. Luckily nobody I know smokes and I rarely see anyone smoke on campus. It's california law that you can't smoke indoors (public buildings) or within 20 ft of building entrances.. it's wonderful.</p>
<p>No one at my HS smoked. Litterally, no one. not in school,, not out of school (in CA), not even the teachers smoked. Now I'm at college in PA, and while there aren't a ton of smokers, it's certainly a shock to the system to see people smoking outside of buildings and outside of the dorm. I hate it when your walking in a group and someone up front lights up ad it gets in the air for everyone behind them. </p>
<p>I think it's a stupid, expensive addiction, that in this day and age just looks ignorant. If you ask people who've been smoking for more than 5 years, almost no one ever says they're happy they started smoking.</p>
<p>90% of my high school smokes so I can't imagine not being around smokers.</p>
<p>Kids at my highschool didn't really smoke- I see a lot more of it here. Wellesley does have an ordinance that you can't smoke within 20 feet of any building.</p>
<p>Most of my friends smoke and I'm a non-smoker and a HEALTH promotion major...They get sick of me preaching lol.</p>
<p>"second-hand smoke is at least as bad as, if not worse than, first-hand."
how can it be worse?</p>