<p>firewalker, I have a D at NYU and I spend some of every month in the city, and have lived there several times over the years, as well as having many family members and friends who have always lived there. I can assure you that the issue is enforced. My advice to you is to quit now. Smoking may still be acceptable in Sterling, Va. but you’re going to feel like a pariah in the city if you continue to smoke.</p>
<p>Gee, with all the rabid anti-smoking sentiment seen here and in other enlightened places, when are we all going to stop driving carcinogen emitting vehicles? Frankly, I see no difference between that and smoking. So, as long as we all live in glass houses…</p>
<p>Really? Then I wonder how so many students there can afford to maintain weed habits…the smell is much more pungent than cigarette smoke…obviously they smoke unimpeded. I would assume the same for cigarette smoking. And I quite clearly remember filling out my roommate questionare which asked if you smoked or not and preferred to room with a smoker or non.</p>
<p>I’m actually gonna take a smoke break right now, pz.</p>
<p>Maybe we should all switch to hybrids, at the very least :p</p>
<p>firewalker,</p>
<p>Of course, some students “smoke unimpeded” but that doesn’t mean that there is no enforcement. Some students break all kinds of rules (and laws). It doesn’t make it right or acceptable or a good idea, and it also doesn’t mean that many do not face the consequences of their chosen actions. The rules about no smoking in the NYU dorms take effect this year, regardless of the survey you completed. In any case, you obviously are determined to ruin your own health and I can only hope that at some point in the future, you see the danger and stupidity of your choice to smoke, and quit.</p>
<p>leanid,</p>
<p>I think that the answer to your question is, when “carcinogen emitting vehicles” can be scientifically tied to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of citizens every year, as smoking is.</p>
<p>I had a roommate with an allergy to smoke. We had to request a special non-smoking wing. If you end up with a roommate like that, I can guarantee that you won’t be popular.</p>
<p>Oh I see, how smug, as long as there is no scientific evidence then it must not be happening. Well, pardon me, but I do not see the reverence for “science”, especially when its “findings” are being continuously “revised”.</p>
<p>By the way aren’t automobiles and the like responsible for many thousand deaths by other means? But that is another issue…</p>
<p>this denial of the costs of smoking reminds me of the posters who swear they can control their drinking- ( and we know what happened to them):(</p>
<p>“Smoking may still be acceptable in Sterling, Va. but you’re going to feel like a pariah in the city if you continue to smoke.” I’m going to have to disagree with this statement. NYC is the last major city where smoking is still fairly rampant, IMO. Many of the people I know from NYC smoke, much more than people from other major metropolitan areas.</p>
<p>except you cant smoke in nyc bars and restaurants (thank goodness)</p>
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<p>That’s exactly how science is supposed to work: you get a better and better understand of the world as you develop better and better data. Everything gets revised as the data improves. It’s not a problem; it’s a good thing.</p>
<p>revision in science…well…good thing…cuz otherwise the sun would stil be orbiting around us!!!</p>
<p>Classic Steve Martin:</p>
<p>“When someone asks me ‘Mind if I smoke?’, I say ‘Sure, mind if I fa*t’?”</p>
<p>As a side note - I remember my first year in college - the back 2 rows of every classroom were reserved for smokers who wanted to smoke DURING class!! Can you imagine that happening now? </p>
<p>Utah has very strict anti-smoking laws. Yes, the Mormon culture probably influenced the law in the beginning but most of the poulation strongly supports the indoor clean air act - and the ban on smoking 25 feet from the entrance to any public building. </p>
<p>There is a hospital here that bans smoking on any part of the grounds period. You can’t even smoke in the parking lot. </p>
<p>I personally am not too bothered by smoking - but in light of the new research on second hand smoke I am beginning to change my attitude.</p>
<p>That sounds hilarious, but I would never smoke inside a classroom.</p>
<p>I was in college during the smoke in class days too. After that many people smoked in the office. I suppose I should be worried now. I’m more worried about crossing the street in Seattle.</p>
<p>why would you be worried about crossing the street- while I see rock stars ignore teh crosswalks, traffic is pretty polite and I always stop way back from the crosswalk so the pedestrian can see if the other lane of traffic is also stopped.
I actually have been driving lately more than I would like with this gorgeous weather- but I am just so busy!
( besides I have the excuse that I have asthma- & ironically all the polution makes it much worse)</p>
<p>Red light runners, bike messengers, turn on red without looking, etc. Plenty of close calls.</p>
<p>I don’t smoke, but I think I just may light up in one of these non smoking zones to tick off the P.C. police. Haha that will be a hoot.</p>
<p>I recommended purchasing a CrispAir Light bulb. I helps to get rid of cigarette smoke, odors and bacteria. You can buy it at Amazon.com.</p>