how taboo is taboo in the campus?

Taboos in school has never been much of an issue. For as long as there are students wanting to bend the rules as much as they could, these unaccepted acts will always be around. I even noticed that there is a perfectly effective way of getting away with breaking school rules and/or taboos. First is attitude-not totally arrogant and obnoxious but more of being in control. It's like knowing where to do what and when, like smoking, it is of course not allowed but i see a huge deal of people smoking inside the campus, they just know where to hide at a certain time. But if there's one thing you really must possess to be able to rid yourself of problems is by befriending employees of the school-the more powerful or the higher the position, the better. I'm not saying that a lot of the people that work in school let things slide, I just know that there are (let's just say) some that are probably "too friendly" to act upon such unacceptable behavior. But it's not too much of a deal, really. The rules they break and the things they do are not like the things other people do in their school-scandalous acts;I guess it's because we're more disciplined or probably few, so we're more tolerable.