<p>How common is cigarette smoking at each of the top schools?</p>
<p>How about this list of schools in particular:</p>
<p>UChicago
Northwestern
Rochester
Princeton
Carnegie Mellon
Syracuse
Tufts
Colby
Bowdoin
Penn
Miami (OH)
Michigan
UVa
Wisconsin
Johns Hopkins
Denison
Kenyon
Cornell</p>
<p>These are the schools I'm considering...and secondhand smoke is a pet peeve of mine.</p>
<p>Are you serious?</p>
<p>Every school will have cigarette smokers. </p>
<p>Some have established rules regarding where people can smoke, such as:
--must be more than 20 feet from a building entrance
--no smoking in any university-owned building
and similar regulations</p>
<p>you'd be better off researching which schools have rules like these, and which ones actually enforce them.</p>
<p>I am serious...I think it's a valid question.</p>
<p>I was just wondering if it's more prevalent at some schools than others.
More people smoke in Europe than America, so maybe more people smoke in School A than School B.</p>
<p>I think it's a serious question also, I'm just saying that quantifying the amount of smokers at a university is hard to do accurately.</p>
<p>At MOST universities, I would say that smokers are in the far minority. The percentage is probably the similar per school, but there will be more smokers at Michigan than Kenyon, purely because of population. UChicago (and all other urban schools) will seemingly have more smokers, because the campuses are often integrated into the city so you'll be around the general population more often. </p>
<p>I go to a large state public and see a decent amount of smokers, but it's nothing unbearable. On a typical class day I'll see maybe 20 people smoking, but keep in mind that most are respectful towards non-smokers and smoke away from buildings, away from non-smokers, etc. There will be those who smoke while walking down the sidewalks even if they know everyone around them is a non-smoker and passing them quickly to avoid the smoke.</p>
<p>I (as a nonsmoker) could say that smoking is virtually non-existent at School A while someone else who smokes and hangs out with people who smoke a lot, could say that they love that there's a large group of people for them to smoke with at same School A.</p>
<p>Check for smoking policies at each school. Some schools publish facts about their student-body makeup, including smoking/non-smoking. And when in doubt.....visit.</p>
<p>no one at northwestern smokes. that's the only school i can speak for on that list</p>
<p>It's logical for smoking at a university to be a non-popular activity. I mean, think about it, it causes horrible, irreparable damage to your lungs. People at elite schools are (for the most part) going to be aware of the consequences, and won't smoke(unless they're already addicted, which is another story all-together...)</p>
<p>Thanks all.</p>
<p>This stemmed from reading on The Princeton Review that everyone at Wheaton (MA) smokes, and from visiting Carnegie Mellon and seeing a good deal of smokers, to my surprise.</p>
<p>hopefully not common at all.</p>
<p>At Chicago, you'll often see a smoker or two or five outside of Cobb Hall, getting in a smoke before class. These people are called "Cobbroaches" and get derided (both for smoking and for being impossibly pretentious).</p>
<p>There's also often a smoker or two outside my dorm, especially later at night. For a dorm of 300+ kids, seeing two smoke together is not a big deal.</p>
<p>In both instances, I just find it easy not to breathe as I walk by. Other than those two spots, I really rarely see students smoking. A few of my friends smoke tobacco on occasion, and a girl I sat next to in one class reeked of smoke, but if you don't smoke or don't like smoking, I would say you are in the distinct majority.</p>
<p>Smoking is not allowed indoors (Illinois state law) and you can request that your roomie is a non-smoker.</p>
<p>I grew up in WI, and in my experiences, almost everyone I've met there smokes. Sure, it's been banned in restaurants in some cities, but it's still extremely common outside and at social gatherings. I don't know about the school in particular, as I haven't been on the campus since I was little, but it does seem to be a huge trend throughout the state. </p>
<p>The only other places I can speak of are Northwestern, Bowdoin, and Colby. None of the three seem to have a smoking problem from my impressions.</p>
<p>Penn is in Philadelphia, which has banned smoking in bars and such. This makes for a better experience.</p>
<p>You might also want to look at Stanford, which I believe has banned smoking across their entire campus</p>
<p>Timely question.</p>
<p>At UCLA I would estimate that at most 2% are smokers. I can go through an entire day and not observe a smoker.</p>
<p>Last night at a New Year's Eve party in Malibu, I met a professor from Santa Monica college, which is a feeder school for the UCs and Cal States.. A big issue on campus this year is a recent change in the smoking policy. The ENTIRE CAMPUS is now a non smoking zone. This has caused a lot of hard feelings among the large international smoking student population (lots of Japanese), and the immigrant residents (a lot of Persians smoke). It could affect the finances of the school if the Japanese and other foreign students (who pay about $125 per unit rather than the resident $25 (approx) per unit) take their community college business elsewhere.</p>
<p>Smoking at top schools is not as much of an issue as drug use, or smoking other things like weed. Cigarettes are the least of the problems ;)</p>
<p>smiles1011.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if that's good news or bad news, if you know what I mean.</p>
<p>I know what you mean. I guess for the most part though cigarette smokers are more open and in your face (i mean smoking in public places) than drug-users who tend to be a bit more discrete, so a straight-edge student would be less exposed to the druggies.</p>
<p>Love those druggies though, some of my best friends.</p>
<p>Below is a list of colleges and their policies on smoking. maybe this will give you some insite. It has info listed by state.</p>
<p>Yale, which isn't on your list, has quite a few smokers.</p>