Did your high school have a student smoking section?

[Anonymous]

Graduated in 1996, FCPS. Definitely no student smoking area. I don't remember ever seeing teachers smoke at school either.

[Anonymous]

graduated 1994 in NY state... yes, student smoking section right outside building

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Heh. I can't even remember a time when people were allowed to smoke in restaurants or near building entrances.
-Graduated 2004

I remember smoking in local bars (Clarendon) in 2007

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Class of 1984, and I don't remember because I wasn't a smoker. Most kids smoked outside the auto and wood shop. I remember teachers smoked in their lounge and in classrooms after school.

I don't smoke anymore but I think this sounds great

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone on here still smoke?

I've never smoked, but I see tons of people smoking in the cars during my commute from va to DC. I'm eastern European, so everyone smoked outside in HS starting in 9th grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

I'm in Rome right now, and the millenials around here are smoking like crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone on here still smoke?

I've never smoked, but I see tons of people smoking in the cars during my commute from va to DC. I'm eastern European, so everyone smoked outside in HS starting in 9th grade.

Yes, socially when around other social smokers, which doesn't happen too often, but when it does it's heavenly!

[Anonymous]

It did when my sister attended. She graduated in 1984. (1980-84).

It was no longer there when I arrived 1984-1988. This was Fairfax County.

My sister was part of the 'grandfather clause' in which they could legally drink at 18 years old in DC.

Life was drastically different in the short number of years between us.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Heh. I can't even remember a time when people were allowed to smoke in restaurants or near building entrances.
-Graduated 2004

I remember smoking in local bars (Clarendon) in 2007

Smoking in bars was everywhere. Yes.

My entire 20s/most of my 30s it was awful. You would come home and have to take a shower because your hair and clothes reeked of smoke.

All the bars in DC, NOVA, MoCo, NYC, etc.

I remember my winter wool coat reeking of smoke AND I was a non-smoker---as were most of my friends.

I knew a ton of people that were 'only smoke when I drink' types too.

I was thrilled when smoking in bars was outlawed---though by then I was pretty much out of the bar scene. Sigh. I think about all of that second-hand smoke I ingested all of those years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Heh. I can't even remember a time when people were allowed to smoke in restaurants or near building entrances.
-Graduated 2004

I remember smoking in local bars (Clarendon) in 2007

Smoking in bars was everywhere. Yes.

My entire 20s/most of my 30s it was awful. You would come home and have to take a shower because your hair and clothes reeked of smoke.

All the bars in DC, NOVA, MoCo, NYC, etc.

I remember my winter wool coat reeking of smoke AND I was a non-smoker---as were most of my friends.

I knew a ton of people that were 'only smoke when I drink' types too.

I was thrilled when smoking in bars was outlawed---though by then I was pretty much out of the bar scene. Sigh. I think about all of that second-hand smoke I ingested all of those years.

I'm 49, btw. I also have noticed how many young people/20s/early 30s are outside smoking. I live in a close-in urban area and when I'm jogging. I'm running through clouds of smoke. Is it vaping that has led to an increase in smoking again?

[Anonymous]

The good old days.

Except these are both recent pictures.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Heh. I can't even remember a time when people were allowed to smoke in restaurants or near building entrances.
-Graduated 2004

I remember smoking in local bars (Clarendon) in 2007

Smoking in bars was everywhere. Yes.

My entire 20s/most of my 30s it was awful. You would come home and have to take a shower because your hair and clothes reeked of smoke.

All the bars in DC, NOVA, MoCo, NYC, etc.

I remember my winter wool coat reeking of smoke AND I was a non-smoker---as were most of my friends.

I knew a ton of people that were 'only smoke when I drink' types too.

I was thrilled when smoking in bars was outlawed---though by then I was pretty much out of the bar scene. Sigh. I think about all of that second-hand smoke I ingested all of those years.

I envy you.
I was too young to partake in the scenes you speak of.
I had older relatives who were involved in those scenes but my parents would not allow for me go hang out with them because I was so young.

[Anonymous]

Yes, an unofficial outdoor spot. It was known as “cancer hill”. Early 80s.

[Anonymous]

Yes. It was an outside courtyard. I graduated in 1982 from a high school in upstate NY. I don't remember where the teachers smoked.

When I moved to DC and went to work for the federal government, unless you had a private office, you weren't allowed to smoke at your desk. But there were designated "smoking" bathrooms spread around the building. I knew to avoid those bathrooms.

Then, sometime around 1990, they banned smoking in the bathrooms and people had to go outside. My cubicle had a window that looked over an entrance to the building. When I would get distracted at work, I would watch the people on their cigarette breaks.

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