Did your high school have a student smoking section?

[Anonymous]

Yes.
I graduated in 1988, from a HS on Long Island.
It had a smoking "patio"

The smokers were referred to as "patio people"

[Anonymous]

Graduated 1986. There had been a "student smoking room" in the building, but it was converted to a weight room my sophomore or junior year. The smoking students moved outside at that point.

Right around this time the drinking age was raised from 18 to 21 - I had some friends who were grandfathered in at 18. When I got to college, the student union had what used to be a pub onsite, but it was shut down the year before I arrived.

Funny how all that would be unthinkable now. I don't think I'm that old!!!

[Anonymous]

Graduated 1990. The school had just banned smoking when I entered HS. We stood across the street and smoked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What years were you in high school?
Did your high school have a student smoking section?
Was it in the same area as the teacher smoking section or was it separate?

1980-1984

the breezeway - where the "freaks" were

freaks
jocks
rednecks
and the "rest"

[Anonymous]

Graduated in 1990, my high schools in the mid west and east coast both had smoking areas. The junior high in the midwest also had a smoking area. The junior high on the east coast did not have a smoking area. Smoking areas for students were separate from smoking areas for teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Graduated 1990. The school had just banned smoking when I entered HS. We stood across the street and smoked.

Oh forgot the teachers. I had an English teacher (AP!) who smoked in his classroom in between classes. He would open the door and a cloud of smoke would follow.

[Anonymous]

Yes.
1994-1998

[Anonymous]

I graduated in 92, pretty sure my freshman year was the last. they had a courtyard, glasses in on the sides by the school.

in elementary school, 4th grade I think, the whole county took the kids on a field trip to Philip Morris factory ever year. We rode around in little tour carts with head phones & watched cigarettes rolling off the line. Left with some cool cigarette themed swag too.

[Anonymous]

Teachers and students smoked together at our W school late 70's

[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.

Same here.

Late 80s

It also had a soda machine that sold mountain dew

Me three. And we could buy "Funny Bones" (like a chocolate Twinkie with peanut butter filling) and "orange drink" in the cafeteria for lunch.

[Anonymous]

Richard Montgomery did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Graduated 1986. There had been a "student smoking room" in the building, but it was converted to a weight room my sophomore or junior year. The smoking students moved outside at that point.

Right around this time the drinking age was raised from 18 to 21 - I had some friends who were grandfathered in at 18. When I got to college, the student union had what used to be a pub onsite, but it was shut down the year before I arrived.

Funny how all that would be unthinkable now. I don't think I'm that old!!!

Yep, me too. They had just stop serving alcohol at campus parties during my freshman year in 85. The upperclass students, who were grandfathered in, would by us beer. In college, the classrooms had *just* gone no smoking--but during my English lit. seminars in 1988 they would open up the windows and everyone--students and faculty--(well, except me and a couple of other students) would smoke.

[Anonymous]

Graduated in 1990, we were allowed to smoke in the courtyard (parking lot) off the cafeteria. I once lit my skirt on fire by accident when I sat down on a step and my skirt fell over a lit butt. The year I started college was the first year smoking wasn't allowed in the library.

[Anonymous]

No '95, New Jersery

[Anonymous]

No. 1994.