Lighting up : the rise of social smoking on college campuses / Mimi Nichter.

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    • Abstract:
      Summary: "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 and focus groups with hundreds of young adults, Lighting Up takes the reader into their everyday lives to explore social smoking. Mimi Nichter argues that we must understand more about the meaning of social and low level smoking to youth, the social contexts that cause them to take up (or not take up) the habit, and the way that smoking plays a large role in students' social lives. Nichter examines how smoking facilitates social interaction, helps young people express and explore their identity, and serves as a means for communicating emotional states. Most college students who smoked socially were confident that "this was no big deal." After all, they were "not really smokers" and they would only be smoking for a short time. But, as graduation neared, they expressed ambivalence or reluctance to quit. As many grads today step into an uncertain future, where the prospect of finding a good job in a timely manner is unlikely, their 20s may be a time of great stress and instability. For those who have come to depend on the comfort of cigarettes during college, this array of life stressors may make cutting back or quitting more difficult, despite one's intentions and understandings of the harms of tobacco. And emerging products on the market, like e-cigarettes, offer an opportunity to move from smoking to vaping. Lighting Up considers how smoking fits into the lives of young adults and how uncertain times may lead to uncertain smoking trajectories that reach into adulthood." -- Publisher information.
    • Content Notes:
      "It's no big deal!" -- Profiles and progressions -- Smoking and drinking: "it's like milk and cookies!" -- What's gender got to do with it? -- Reconsidering smoking as a weight-control strategy -- The slippery slope -- Tipping points: stress, boredom, and romance -- Quit talk -- Looking forward: uncertain trajectories.
    • Notes:
      Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-252) and index.
    • ISBN:
      9780814758380
      081475838X
      9780814758397
      0814758398
    • Accession Number:
      2014040542
    • Accession Number:
      ocn876883106
      876883106
    • Accession Number:
      mldr.KOHA.OAI.MOTLOWSCC.42513
  • Citations
    • ABNT:
      NICHTER, M. Lighting up : the rise of social smoking on college campuses. [s. l.]: NYU Press, 2015. ISBN 9780814758380. Disponível em: https://ezproxy.mscc.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=cat08908a&AN=mldr.KOHA.OAI.MOTLOWSCC.42513. Acesso em: 5 out. 2023.
    • AMA 11th Edition:
      Nichter M. Lighting up : The Rise of Social Smoking on College Campuses. NYU Press; 2015. Accessed October 5, 2023. https://ezproxy.mscc.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=cat08908a&AN=mldr.KOHA.OAI.MOTLOWSCC.42513
    • APA 7th Edition:
      Nichter, M. (2015). Lighting up : the rise of social smoking on college campuses. NYU Press.
    • Chicago 17th Edition:
      Nichter, Mimi. 2015. Lighting up : The Rise of Social Smoking on College Campuses. NYU Press. https://ezproxy.mscc.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=cat08908a&AN=mldr.KOHA.OAI.MOTLOWSCC.42513.
    • Harvard:
      Nichter, M. (2015) Lighting up : the rise of social smoking on college campuses. NYU Press. Available at: https://ezproxy.mscc.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=cat08908a&AN=mldr.KOHA.OAI.MOTLOWSCC.42513 (Accessed: 5 October 2023).
    • Harvard: Australian:
      Nichter, M 2015, Lighting up : the rise of social smoking on college campuses, NYU Press, viewed 5 October 2023, .
    • MLA 9th Edition:
      Nichter, Mimi. Lighting up : The Rise of Social Smoking on College Campuses. NYU Press, 2015. EBSCOhost, ezproxy.mscc.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=cat08908a&AN=mldr.KOHA.OAI.MOTLOWSCC.42513.
    • Chicago 17th Edition:
      Nichter, Mimi. Lighting up : The Rise of Social Smoking on College Campuses. NYU Press, 2015. https://ezproxy.mscc.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=cat08908a&AN=mldr.KOHA.OAI.MOTLOWSCC.42513.
    • Vancouver/ICMJE:
      Nichter M. Lighting up : the rise of social smoking on college campuses [Internet]. NYU Press; 2015 [cited 2023 Oct 5]. Available from: https://ezproxy.mscc.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=cat08908a&AN=mldr.KOHA.OAI.MOTLOWSCC.42513