Lighting Up: The Rise of Social Smoking on College Campuses

276 Pages·2015·1.78 MB·English

by  Mimi Nichter

Lighting Up
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Lighting Up
Te Rise of Social Smoking on College Campuses
Mimi Nichter
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N E W Y O R K U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S
New York and London
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Nichter, Mimi.
Lighting up : the rise of social smoking on college campuses / Mimi Nichter.
pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8147-5838-0 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-8147-5839-7 (pb)
1. Smoking—United States. 2. College students—Tobacco use—United States.
3. College students—United States—Social life and customs. I. Title.
HV5760.N53 2015
362.29’608420973—dc23 2014040542
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For Mark
For your continued presence and your loving support
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
1. “It’s No Big Deal” 1
2. Profles and Progressions 24
3. Smoking and Drinking: “It’s Like Milk and Cookies!” 45
4. What’s Gender Got to Do with It? 74
5. Reconsidering Smoking as a Weight-Control Strategy 101
6. Te Slippery Slope 120
7. Tipping Points: Stress, Boredom, and Romance 148
8. Quit Talk 169
9. Looking Forward: Uncertain Trajectories 194
Appendix: Methods 207
Notes 219
References 233
Index 253
About the Author 263
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Acknowledgments
I have many people to thank for their assistance in the writing of
this book. First, I am grateful to have been a Faculty Scholar with
the Tobacco Etiology Research Network (TERN), funded by the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Te purpose of this network was
to study from a transdisciplinary perspective the etiology of tobacco
use and transitions from low-level use to dependency among youth.
Four times each year for six years, I attended TERN meetings where
I was immersed in an intense think tank, learning about tobacco
research from a wide variety of perspectives, including psychophar-
macology, behavioral genetics, neurobiology, animal studies, and
epidemiology. As one of only two anthropologists in the research
network (the other being Mark Nichter), I was ofen challenged to
comprehend the research approaches to the study of tobacco from
other disciplines, and I personally struggled to articulate the con-
tributions of an anthropological approach to tobacco to this largely
quantitative group.
Te Tobacco Etiology Research Network infuenced my think-
ing and greatly expanded my understanding of the tobacco feld.
Network members included Richard Clayton (chair), David Abrams,
Robert Balster, Linda Collins, Ronald Dahl, Brian Flay, Gary Gio-
vino, Jack Henningfeld, George Koob, Robert McMahon, Kathleen
Merikangas, Mark Nichter, Saul Shifman, Stephen Tifany, Craig
Colder, Lisa Dierker, Eric Donny, Lorah Dorn, Tomas Eissenberg,
Brian Flaherty, Lan Liang, Elizabeth Lloyd-Richardson, William
Shadel, and Laura Stroud. Some of the data for this book is drawn
from studies that were conducted under the auspices of TERN. I am
extremely thankful for the fnancial support from this group. Hav-
ing an opportunity to work for so long with so many of our nation’s
top tobacco researchers was truly an honor.
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