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ok..so i go to college in about 2 weeks..its a scary thought..especially when i think i might have to leave my hookah behind..
Has anyone around the KY area (or anywhere where hookah is known for something other than tobacco) ever smoked outside..in public?  I know that i'm not doing anything wrong..but the bastard University Police may think i'm doing something illegal if they drive by and i'm sitting outside with my hookah..
should i even risk it?  Do you think that they'll take it for drug paraphenalia even if i've never used it for something illegal?
 
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My friend was smoking in a park one day when the cops rolled up and asked him what he was doing.  he showed them the ma'assel box and invited them for a smoke.  20 minutes later the cops were back on the streets and my friend was still in posession of his hookah and all accesories.
I can't see a problem.  They can't take your hookah unless they can proove that it has been used to smoke the unmentionable.
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u should be fine, theres absolutly nothing illigal about smoking tobacco (unless ur under 16...well for canada atleased)
i would take it...for all you know some people on your floor smoke. as for having it in your room most likely ur aloud...as long as theres no rule against possesing cigaretts or cigars then your good
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My thought? Be careful! I don't know about Kentucky (I can only guess). Even though Kentucky really isn't a southern state geograohically speaking, it is still smack in the bible-belt. I may be wrong, and don't want to insult, but I'm under the impression they have the typical (what I call) "southern mentality.) You know: "If it ain't from around here, it's no good." I'm afraid you will get hassled pretty bad. The only way I can get away with it on my front porch (I live down in Louisiana in an area called "The Crossroads." Those names always imply, "we don't have any culture other than Walmart on Saturday night.") is because most of my neighbors already know I am straight. Before retirement, they saw me leave in the AM in uniform and return the same way. So they suspect I'm really a good ol' boy.
So just be careful, and keep us posted.
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I went to my friends college for an afternoon smoke once and everyone else with hookahs got into trouble except me and my friends. Only by the school security though, but I don't know how it works with dorm rooms in the states and whatever. Good luck and happy smoking!Jon
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i'm actually in a smaller town, called Bowling Green...WKU is a lot smaller and a lot less..well..cultured...
hardly anyone from this town knows what a hookah is really used for unless i have introduced them to it..
i'm so scared..i don't want my precious to get confiscated!
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as long as it has no residue from the unmentionable their is no way they can confiscate your hookah. oh they could try but a simple threat to call a lawyer and you should be fine. think of this as a way to inform the uninformed if anyone gives you a problem just keep your cool and explain what it is and how it works probably would not hurt to give them a little history lesson on your choice of smoking either. most important is keep your cool you may not respect the jackass in the uniform but show the position they hold some respect and you should be fine.
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*first post-awesome forum btw*
anyway, i would be careful just using it inside the dorm.  A bunch
of stoners at my old school got busted when cops showed up at their
room, only one guy got caught and luckily nothing more happened than
the resident director made him do a bunch of community service around
the dorm, but just becareful, cause hookahs are normally against the
fire policy of dorms.
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I go to school in a fairly small town, and since the cops have nothing
better to they take even suspected drug use seriously.  I have
gotten them called on me like 3 times for smoking on my front porch (I
live off grounds).  Most of the problem you would have in dorms is
from RAs, but most of them are pretty cool and/or at least know what a
hookah is properly used for.  Fire codes, however, are where the
real problems lie - ours was so strict that we could only have a 10% of
wallspace covered.  My advice would be to bring it for sure (its a
great way to meet people), but just be somewhat discrete on when and
where you are using it, and of course never put anything it besides
shisha.
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yea very nice o's. I just went to WKU for band camp. its a very nice
campus and the cafeteria is tha sh*t. back to topic. if it was me i
would take it and smoke it somewhere descreet like in a small park way
or something. maybe a friends house?
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well i actually live in bowling green (where the school is) so leaving it at home is not a problem..i just want to be able to call a friend up that lives in my building or a building over and be like "wanna smoke" and they can come over and we can smoke on a bench outside or something...
you think there will be a problem with that??
i'll be so sad if i have to leave it at home..as i just got back from california where i purchased $100+ on supplies to start school with!
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One thing I have learned is that as long as you act like youre allowed to do something, people generally leave you be. And since there is nothing illegal about hookah, even if someone tries to give you sh*t theres nothing they can do about it, especially if you are outside. 
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Keep in mind that different dorms and colleges have different rules. I
know, for example, Bloomington has an indoor smoking ban where you
can't smoke within ten feet of a building. RAs can either be really
cool about it or can flip out; you'll have to judge that for yourself.
Your best bet is indoors at a friends place. The last thing you want to
do is attract police attention, as they can confiscate it and test for
residue. 
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most definitely not what i want to hear..i know there is a ban on smoking in the dorms..but honestly, what's the difference in my roommate lighting up a cigarette outside the building and me sitting on the sidewalk with my hookah?
i'm thinking it iwll be easy to get away with smoking indoors as the smoke doesn't smell like smoke and doesn't really stick to anything..but i will test itoutside and get my RAs hooked before i even try that
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Hey, just take it easy. Relax for a minute. Here's what I'd do: Take it with you. You get there. just relax. Get a feel for the place and the people. Take a mental survey of who you can trust and who you can't. Who's cool and who sux. Within a week, you'll know what you can get awy with and what you can't. Then you'll be alright. You'll probably discover you can smoke at night if you surround yourself with cool people. You'll do fine. If someone makes a scene, justy take your machine home. It's not the Army: you can't be locked up on base sharing a barracks with 50 guys and 3/4 of em suck!  You'll be alright.
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I will be starting my 3rd year at the University of the Pacific in
Stockton, Ca. As for smoking outside on campus, there will be different
rules depending on which campus you go to. My school is a private
school, and in most cases with private schools they can make up any
rule they please. But luckily, Pacific's campus police are very nice.
The only rule they have regarding smoking anything out in public is
that it must be 50 ft from a building. This is just a precaution
because someone burnt part of a dorm down from smoking ciggs a while
back.

Like most people said above, bring your tobacco with you. A few times
smoking outside with my buds, a cops rolled by and stopped, cam over
and talked to us. He said right away he wasn't worried because he
couldn't smell any ganja, but still thought he should talk to us. We
offered to open up the foil for him to better inspect. As long as you
are cooperative and not sassy, be friendly, most of the time they will
be cool. And if he tells you to pack up, don't argue just be cool about
it. Not the end of the world..

And if you want to get dangerous and smoke hookah inside, just let me
know if you need any tips. This is all I did my first 2 years at
school. I could give you some pointers ;)
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[quote name='Molson']haha towel under the door
and exhale into a paper towel tube with cotton and bounce in it
hahahhaha[/quote]

hehe, that's how we got away with lots of fun in a no-smoking
dorm.  sure, we prolly spent as much on air freshener as we did
on...anything else, but had a good time.
(xcept we stuffed a 20oz coke bottle full of bounce and cut holes in the bottom, worked 100x better).
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Well, yes with the towel under the door, but there are a few things in addition which can help a lot.

1. A wet towel will work better than a dry towel obviously.

2. Most dorms have windows. Place a flat fan right in the window seal
blowing outwards. I used to do this, but it creates too much air
circulation in my room, thus preventing me to blow Os so I only turn it
on after a session to clear out the smoke, or crank it on full blast if
the police are at my door (which have happeend a few times)

3. Most dorms will also have smoke detectors in each room. Now this can
be tricky. Our smoke detectors can only detect "hot" smoke. Now I say
hot smoke because hookah really doesn't have hot smoke. Ever notice how
cigg smoke burns your eyes but hookah smoke doesn't? Theres not a
direct flame burning anywhere. So because of this, I still cover the
smoke detector with a plastic bag and tie it down, just to be safe. No
sense in risking it.

4. Keep some form of a container filled with water. Just incase you
have an RA or campus police knocking on your door and want to break
down your hookah really quickly so you can hide it (once again, this
has happened to me a few times), you can just grab the hot coals with
tongs and dump them into the water, and then safely move your hookah
without fear of droping hot coals on anything.

5. Carpet...Some dorms have carpet, some of hard tile. If your room has
carpet and you want to avoid a hefty fine at the end of the year for
burn marks (trust me, you WILL drop some coals, accidents happen), I
suggest buying cheap 5'x8' sections of carpets at Target or Walmart. Or
even a couple floor matts and just put them next to each other. My
carpet at the end of the year looked like a burn victim. Our rooms came
with tile but my roomie and I used a huge piece of old carpet from his
house and it got toasted over the year.

6. Air fresheners arn't really neccesary, unless you plan on smoking
anything else besides hookah in your room. Hookah smoke isn't as thick
as cigg or cigar smoke, and it doesn't stain all your furniture with
that smell. As long as you use your fan to flush out all the smoke
after every session, you will be golden.

Thats all I can think of at the moment. I will post more as they come to me.
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Oh and I forgot to say, that if you do all these things, there will
never be a need to blow the smoke into a tube with dryer sheets in
them. I mean what the hell is the point of smoking hookah if you blow
all the smoke into a tube ;)

7. If you are really paranoid about getting caught, make sure you
enforce this next rule very strictly. NO IN-N-OUT PRIVALIGES! The only
reason I got caught that one time was at the begining of the year and I
really didn't know the RAs to well, and I had a crew of like 10 people
crammed in my room smoking, and people would be going in and out of my
room every few minutes. What the hell is the point of toweling the door
if someone lets all the smoke out anyways every few mintues?

As long as you keep that door toweld and closed the entire time, you will be fine.
P.S. I was in like flynn with the RAs by the end of my first semmester.
All of them new what I did, and all of them didn't care. I treated them
nicely, and they let me get away with murder. Hell, I smoked and drank
with one of em :)
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