Lighting Up: The Rise of Social Smoking on College Campuses

by Mimi Nichter

Book Overview

While the past 40 years have seen significant declines in adult smoking, this is not the case among young adults, who have the highest prevalence of smoking of all other age groups. At a time when just about everyone knows that smoking is bad for you, why do so many college students smoke? Is it a short lived phase or do they continue throughout the college years? And what happens after college, when they enter the "real world"? Drawing on interviews...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814758398
• ISBN13: 9780814758397
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"