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Too high or low? It sounds about right to me, if you include the casual smokers in the 35%.

• jeffbee 4y ago
  Too high. I do not and did not know any smokers of my age in high school, college, or after. Seriously zero, which would be odd if it was really one-third. And I'm from Oklahoma which has a high rate of smoking, but I associate it with my friends' grandparents.
  • boomboomsubban 4y ago
    Also in the Midwest, I'd say 10% of both my high school and college classes smoked, maybe slightly higher if you count those that smoked while drinking, but about half of my friends in my age group that did not go to college smoked. I'd honestly guess you either didn't notice them or forgot that they smoked. As a former smoker the bars were filled with people smoking until the indoor bans when you could always find some outside.
  • chrisco255 4y ago
    You must have gone to a pretty well-to-do school, because in my D rated high school in FL in the early 00s, it was fairly common for teens to smoke.