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Book SynopsisAt 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? This book deals with these questions.
Trade Review"Why does college-age smoking persist at notable and alarming levels while smoking in the adult US population has significantly declined over the past four decades? Mimi Nichter disentangles and illuminates the lure and social gains of smoking on campus through rich ethnographic accounts. This book helps to unravel the complexity of incentives to smoke among college-age students." -- Linda A. Bennett,author of The Alcoholic Family
"Anthropologist Nichter presents an important new contribution to the literature on youth smoking of interest to both tobacco researchers and general readers." * Choice *
"Lighting Upbrings voice to the young adult college & smoker and nuanced meanings and interpretation of labels, exploring variations in smoking profile even within this defined population.Lighting Upis a good introduction to understanding the multiplicity of voices and the benefits of using alternative methods to reveal subtleties in meanings and identities of young adult smokers." * PsycCRITIQUES *
Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments ix 1. "It's No Big Deal" 1 2. Profiles 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. The 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
