smoking a college dorm room

[Whokah333]

any suggestions on how to smoke hookah in ym college dorm room without
getting caught by having hookah smoke wafting out of my room? or is
this jsut too difficult/not worth it.? i really want to be able to
smoke hookah with friends without having to go to a hookah bar
everytime.

[Soup]

Smoke by an open window with a fan blowing the smoke out.  Make sure to exhale towards the fan.  Oh, and cover all gaps to the hallway ie. towel at the bottom of the door.

[yashman19]

Like Soup said above, towel the door and place a fan in the window
blowing outwards. As long as you have a towel in the door though, there
should be no need to blow the smoke towards the fan, it will get pulled
through the window eventually.

Also, if your dorm has carpeting, make sure you buy some carpet
sections and place them all around the hookah, or you could be looking
at a pretty hefty fine at the end of the year.

And if you are really paranoid, get an old cheap towel that you don't
use anymore and soak it in water, wring the water out so its just
really damp and put that under the door. No smoke will be getting out
for sure then.

Also, does your room have a smoke detector? Watch out for those. My
schools smoke detector  didn't detect smoke, it detected heat. But
I still wraped a plastic bag around it anyways just to be sure. No
sense in risking it.

[mushrat]

REMEMBER TO TAKE THE BAG OFF THE DETECTOR WHEN DONE!!!
In many schools/dorms that can get you in DEEP DEEP DOO DOO..
is also illegal to mess with in many states.
Are you allowed incense? burn insence for a while to get folks used to a floral type odor coming out of your room...
$.02

[Lakemonster]

I guess you really got to ask yourself.........
"is it worth the risk?"
Could you get reprimanded in a way that may affect your collegiate records?
Could you get kicked out of the dorm? Do you have a plan for alternate lodging?
Can you pack that sucker up and set up on the lawn somewhere......... and make friends?
Hey.. I hate to have the unpopular opinion... I just remember a few guys in my dorm getting suspended and even expelled on the second offense for smokin in the dorm.
The college may have its policy in place due to insurance reasons and or Fire Marshall order. Could that be the case and you be subject to a fine or charges brought against you?
So many possibilities with many possible unforseen consequences.

[yashman19]

Yeah, I probably wouldn't have risked it but because I knew all the
RA's and even the Area Coordinator (racquetball partner), I decided for
me it was worth the risk. Mush is right. If the school finds out that
you were tampering with the smoke detector, its a major federal offense
and fire code violation.

But I'm sure that if you play it smart, it can easily be done.

[lov2aclr8]

if you have a gas mask (thats how i smoke weed in the army....)
 
take the filter out and exhale into it.... no flavour what so ever!!
 
is it iiligal to smoke hookah`s at college?? i smoked more hookah (and bongs  in 3 years of boarding school then the ever! (its almost like coolege).... i guesss i`m lucky its totally legal here

[lov2aclr8]

are you sure that hookah smoke fires up the alarm?? it happend to me when i lighted a cherracoll in the room (i was drunk)... but never with just smoke...

[Steviethepope]

To be honest, I never lived in a dorm but my buddy does - he has a hookah and when they smoke they just do it in the living area so smoke doesn't even make it to the door - and I really think they wouldn't be able to tell.. just think of it like air freshener  - unlike weed where they would be able to tell easy I dont think you have anything to worry about imho

[yashman19]

[quote name='Steviethepope']To be honest, I never lived in a dorm but my buddy
does - he has a hookah and when they smoke they just do it in the
living area so smoke doesn't even make it to the door - and I really
think they wouldn't be able to tell.. just think of it like air
freshener  - unlike weed where they would be able to tell easy I dont think you have anything to worry about imho[/quote]

I don't know about you're buddies RAs, but mine wern't idiots. All of
them knew that the smell wasn't from an air freshener, so I'd reccomend
being a bit more cautious that this OP.

[ahwahoo2006]

Id agree with Yash - most colleges now have pretty strict fire codes
and they will make a big deal of you breaking them.  Also, as I
think was mentioned before, it can be super expensive to have to pay
for replacing burnt carpet.  If your windows open, a box fan
facing out will suck all the smoke right out of your room - it means
you cant do rings, but at the expense of getting in trouble with your
school its probably worth it.  Or, you could just make friends
with someone who lives off campus and go smoke over there, which is by
far the safest bet.

[dikydave]

all i know is that we smoked our asses off last year and never got
caught at all.  hehe, some people gave us some weird looks, and im
pretty sure that they knew what was up, but just like everyone has said
so far, find out which type of smoke detector u have for sure, and then
towel your stuff up professionally and the fan.  also, check where
your walls connect to the outer walls, in most dorms theres a space
there and that means that surrounding rooms WILL be able to smell any
of your smoke, so make sure your neighbors are cool first.  thats
the only thing that almost got me in trouble, cause eventually my one
neighbor ended up getting kinda pissed.

[mushrat]

Thats the second time a messege ive been typing has eiher posted mid sentence or dissapeared entirely...mid word.
If i was you i'd go out into the quad or common area outside your dorm, bring a boom box, and smoke there. Much more fun freaking the straights that way.
 
My wife and I were staying at some fancy/smancy (my idea of nice is motel 6..her idea of roughing it is slow room service ) suites hotel in a converted plantation at the beach a few months ago. So I have to go out into the courtyard to have a smoke and a snort. End up meeting some nice folks...
Along comes security..hiding in the bushes and then doing the slow stroll in the shadows...I call out to the rent a cop, invite him over, show him what's going on...he eventually smiles and heads out.
MUCH more fun...

[[LB]]

Mush, a snort? whats that supposed to mean?

My brother had his hookah broken at college last year. They were
allowed to have it, but they just thought he was using it as
paraphonilia, which he prob was one in twenty times, but the fact is
nosey campus security knocked it over and broke his vase- he was
reimbursed 200 bucks. Thats the story of the silver hookah vase i
wanted to show you guys! hand blown glass with silver lacing all about.

[yashman19]

Good point with your neighbors in the dorm.

The way it worked out for me in my dorm room last year, there were two
vents on the ceiling. One was an intake vent (sucked air in) and an
outtake vent (fresh cold air came into the room). What I found out was
that the first time I lit a bowl in my room, almost half the building
smelt of strawberry... When the smoke went into the intake, it got
circulated throughout the dorm. To fix this, I covered the vent with a
piece of cardboard, then completely ductaped it along with all the
edges to make sure no air was getting sucked in.

Then I decided to do the same with the outtake vent just because it was moving the air in my room and f**king up my Os.

As long as you seal your room pretty damn well with a wet towel under
the door and close the vents off, you really don't have to leave the
fan on during your session. That is unless people are going in-n-out of
your room, then that could cause a problem.

But I just sealed off my room and had a session, then when I'm done I
turned on the fan and the smoke would be gone in a few minutes.

[yashman19]

I just remembered about a picture I had from the end of my sophmore
year at school. This is from a full year of leaving the fan in the
window. Now I really don't think it's all from hookah, but a majority
of it is from dirt and dust in the air, but I thought it was kinda
funny.

[img]http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/83/hookahwindowring3tz.jpg[/img]

Oh yeah check this picture out too.. I lived on the first floor of my
dorm, and before we we're such good friends with the RAs and worried
about getting caught, whenever someone came to the door we freaked out
and would put the hot coal from our current session into the base of
water, then dump that water out the window, then hide my hookah under
the bed.... This happened a few dozen times and the result of the nasty
water is outside my window on the wall It's still there and I
foresee it being there for a long time to come. I feel like I've left
my mark at this school...

[img]http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/687/slackline26ld.jpg[/img]

I didn't take this picture to show the hookah water mess, so thats why
I didn't get all of it. This picture is originally from chilling
outside our window on the grass with music and hookah, but its the only
one with my mess