Did your high school have a student smoking section?

[Anonymous]

'85, rust belt, yes.

[Anonymous]

Went to boarding school and we could smoke in our dorm rooms if we had permission from our parents. Class of 90.

[Anonymous]

Yes. Northwood. 1970s.
There was the official smoking room and some unofficial ones.

I didn't smoke, but, yes, it was designed for just that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pacific NW, mid 90s. No official smoking section, cigarettes were technically banned on campus, but students often gathered in the parking lot. Most teachers looked the other way unless the smoking was combined with another offense like cutting class. There were one or two teachers, though, who would write everyone up, every time. Word spread fast when those teachers were spotted walking toward the parking lot.

Way to miss the point of the thread. OP was asking about official smoking areas in high schools. These pretty much stopped by the late 80's.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Went to boarding school and we could smoke in our dorm rooms if we had permission from our parents. Class of 90.

I also graduated in 90 and can't imagine anyone's parent giving permission for that.

[Anonymous]

Hard to fathom this when most colleges these days have campus wide no-smoking policies.

[Anonymous]

We had a smoking room in my sorority. I am 41.

[Anonymous]

1985, private school in the southeast, smoking section for students was eliminated around 1980. Teachers lounge was still smoking, and clouds of smoke would belch out when the door was opened.

[Anonymous]

Well regarded suburban school in rust belt. Yes but eliminated while I was there in 94.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, and I'm pretty sure it was separate from the teachers smoking area. Students had to have a signed permission slip to smoke in the designated areas and parents freely signed the slip. I didn't smoke but my mother did so it didn't mean much to me that some kids smoked.

Similar, though only students over 18 could smoke. It was beside the loading dock. Girls also tanned back there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, and I'm pretty sure it was separate from the teachers smoking area. Students had to have a signed permission slip to smoke in the designated areas and parents freely signed the slip. I didn't smoke but my mother did so it didn't mean much to me that some kids smoked.

Similar, though only students over 18 could smoke. It was beside the loading dock. Girls also tanned back there.

I should add I graduated in 2989 and this was a well-regraded Baltimore area all girls’ private.

[Anonymous]

The senior section of the cafeteria was the smoking section...a half wall "separated" it from the rest of the cafeteria...
1987 graduate private school NYC.

[Anonymous]

Yes (my mom attended) but it was ended in the late 1980’s.

[Anonymous]

Graduated in 1998. Baltimore private. No smoking lounges or areas, either students or teachers. But students were known to nip behind the gym to smoke or sneak off campus to the surrounding neighborhood.

But kids smoked openly on school exchange programs overseas, including in front of the teachers. A few teachers still smoked in those days but only a handful and never on campus.

I remember one of the teachers mentioning smoking being allowed in the teacher's lounge back in the mid '80s.

College, however, was a different story. In 1998-2002 smoking was not banned in the college dorms. Ivy league. And one section of the dining hall allowed smoking. But it was mostly the cafeteria workers who smoked in there. Very few students bothered to smoke indoors, even the smokers. I think allowing indoor smoking rapidly went away within a year or two of graduation. The dining hall may have even banned the smoking section in my last year? Can't remember.

I'll admit to being a social smoker in those days and into my mid 20s but it seems so very odd to see people smoking today and I can't imagine ever lighting up again.

[Anonymous]

Yes. I graduated in 91. Large public high school right in the middle of the country.