Please don't post ridiculous accusations calling people as misogynist or incel. It is a fact that girls worldwide are smoking to copy TikTok/Insta influencers like Nessa, Kendall, Bella etc. It is their wish and no one is trying to do any policing on moral or health grounds, but fact is a fact. .... Just read the news. Tobacco and e-cig companies are paying million dollars to influencers to promote smoking and vaping. NLU girls are dummies in a larger corporate game.

I want to give a new perspective to this being of first year at an LU and please do look over any spelling mistakes because I am using voice to text so I feel like in first year you are trying to make friends with seniors and trying to you know build up a rapport and make connections but it's just feels like to get into the circle of seniors and make them trust you and stuff you need to go out with them party hang out and smoke cigarettes stop it's it's kind of feels like a right of passage it feels like to make connections with seniors you need to do the stuff with them because that is important to them and that is how they connect with people so I kind of feels like that I have smoked like five or six times after I came to college but I never been addicted it was fine and I haven't done it in a month also and it has help me a lot to get along with seniors to be honest and just feels like that this is something you Gotta do even I feel like in corporate stuff and when you get into a job you need to do stuff like this to get along with people but there is another story to this as well because I see a lot of my classmates doing Weed cigarettes alcohol for the first time in the life just because of peer pressure and wanting to be cool and then they are some less just a mentally stressed who just use it as an escap to feel better

Why the title is targeted against NLUs? As far as my experiences go, Private University kids smoke as much, if not more.
Just because they could not clear CLAT, doesn't mean that they cannot smoke.
I agree to the fact that smoking does not make someone look cool or smart. It's just dumb and as an ex-smoker, I see smokers as victims of their weak mind and evil marketing.

And lastly, stop judging others' character based on their habits. Not everyone gets good parenting.

Forget cigarettes. Law students are now heavily into coke and we even saw students from a top private law school being arrested for dealing. It's just that they got caught, everyone does it. Some are also into LSD and meth. Because the academic pressure at law schools is so tough students are stressed and taking recourse to all this.

These days the average age of heart attacks and bypass surgery in men has dropped drastically and the poor quality of air in Delhi is adding to this. If you smoke, then even if you quit after college you will still have damaged your heart and will be a prime candidate for a heart attack in your 30s. You will prematurely bald too. It happened to my brother. He lost all his hair in his 30s.

BASED Opinion: Probably because they carry within them a strong innate desire to die earlier than their ordinary life expectancies through development of lung cancer, throat cancer etc. Furthermore, they likely grew up fatherless, or alternately, grew up with abusive and/or neglectful parents; and also desire to portray themselves as 'cool' or 'chad' in front of their peers by smoking as opposed to merely doing it to satiate their own desires.

ugh. or maybe theyre college students who experiment and end up addicted to an addictive substance like everyone else on the earth? smoking doesn't make you macho and it doesn't make you thin either. and most people I knew in law school didn't care about looking macho or thin. get a life dude.

RGNUL Students are high 24*7 and walking like zombies in campus. Bhaiyo aur beheno, this is massively going to fuck you up. Abhi it might seem cool and gangsta but it is not and no matter how much you say "its organic/it's a plant", it is not healthy. Aur "Amsterdam mein legal hai" bolne walon, please see the quality of what they smoke.

Being high 24*7 for looking cool socially or because you have anxiety issues WILL NOT HELP. See a therapist, take the prescription meds for god's sake. Spend on the right things.