Smoking

Senate still working to end smoking debate

University Senator Mark Cohen said that the smoking policy debate has taken “forever” to resolve.

By Luke Barnes | Jan 26 01:50 am ET

Smoking could lead to cocaine use

According to a recent study conducted by Columbia researchers, there's a biological reason that smoking might lead to cocaine use.

By Henry Willson | Nov 22 02:20 am ET

Blowing smoke

There are many topics more worthy of deliberation than the smoking ban.

By Editorial Board | Oct 9 11:02 pm ET

MoHi sees dramatic smoking decline

Fifty-five percent fewer residents of Morningside Heights and Central Harlem reported that they were smokers in 2010 than in 2002.

By Wenxin Yan and Quinton Robbins | Oct 4 02:14 am ET

A smoker's utopia

Ethan proposes a smoking social experiment.

By Ethan A. Perets | Dec 9 11:17 pm ET

Time to kick butts

Reasons abound for a campus-wide ban.

By Mark A. Cohen | Dec 7 10:59 pm ET

Campus smoking areas—not smoking bans—are the way forward

CCSC's approach to smoking on campus is misguided and needs reconsideration.

By James Dawson | Nov 29 09:40 pm ET

In defense of smokers

Blasphemous though it may be to admit this in the Spectator, I love Bwog’s series “Overheard.” I love it because 1.) it makes me feel better about my own penchant for eavesdropping, and 2.) it provides us with such gems as this:

“Little kid, maybe 13 years old, wearing a backpack walking with classmates. With a concerned look at the ashtrays outside of Hamilton: ‘I know there’s a lot of peer pressure at college, but why does everyone have to smoke so much?’”

Good question, kid.

By Neil FitzPatrick | Apr 5 08:40 pm ET

Obesity dangers rival smoking, CU researchers say

A new study shows evidence of the extensive toll obesity takes on health.

By Yishu Huang | Mar 10 11:31 am ET

City may make public housing a smoke-free zone

“You can’t smoke anywhere, now you can’t smoke at home?”

By Nicholas Bloom | Nov 19 04:31 am ET

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