Did your high school have a student smoking section?
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Anonymous
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No. Went to HS in late 90s in California.
However, students freely smoked in the parking lots without interference during breaks and lunch. The teachers' lounge went smoke-free my sophomore year (1997). It was a BIG deal. |
Anonymous
I still remember bingo nights at my elementary school's cafeteria on the weekends. There were clouds of smoke everywhere. 
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Anonymous
| Yes. Graduated in 81. It was a set of outside stairs. |
Anonymous
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FCPS, 1986 grad.
When I started high school in 1982, our student smoking lounge was just the outside, covered entrance to the the gym lobby, behind the school but where busses dropped off and picked up. You'd disembark and board your bus in a haze of smoke. Hated arriving at school with my meticulously blown dried, curled and winged hair reeking of Marlboros. Gross. Teachers had their own teacher lounges (I can only remember two - one upstairs, one downstairs) and of course, teachers could smoke there. I remember having a class across the hall from the teachers lounge and seeing the door open and close and smoke coming out. By 1985, the student smoking lounges were gone. Unsure about teachers smoking at school. A legion of "smoking awareness aides" were hired to patrol the halls and parking lot for smoking scofflaws. They were an obnoxious bunch, always screeching into their walkie talkies. My older brother told me that when he was at the same he in the late 1970s, everyone smoked. Your parents did, your teachers did, the students did. FCPS smoking lounges for students were borne out of the hippie, loosening social mores with more personal freedoms and student rights era. |
Anonymous
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Eliminated in the early 90s, same time they banned smoking in the teachers' lounges. I graduated in 99. Small town in CT.
I recall walking by the teacher's lounge in my k-2 and 3-5 and gagging on the stench. By the time I got to middle school in 1992 teachers were no longer allowed to smoke inside. |
Anonymous
| I was class of '92 and students could smoke in a fenced in area outside. You were supposed to be 18 to be inside but no one checked. |
Anonymous
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graduated in 92 in the south - and no, there was no smoking area. We were thankful to have vending machines.
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Anonymous
| Does anyone on here still smoke? |
Anonymous
a senior privilege That's hysterical. I graduated in '84 when smoking was still sort of cool. |
Anonymous
Same...in western pa...area eliminated around 1994....totally amazes me looking back |
Anonymous
| Graduated in 1993. They got rid of the student smoking (I think) in 1988, then the teacher smoking in 1990. The AD was unofficially allowed to keep smoking in his office until he retired in 1992. |
Anonymous
| Local Catholic High School Class of 80. Main cafeteria had a smoking section (about 1/4 of it). Senior Lunch Room was smoke if you want to. Freshmen could smoke, no permission needed. No smoking in the bathrooms or anywhere else inside. I think 1 or 2 teachers smoked in the classroom on occasion. |
Anonymous
| No. Graduated in 1994. Smoking used to be allowed in the courtyard, but I believe it was eliminated in 1989. |
Anonymous
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NJ. 1991-1995 - It was in flux while I was there. My freshman and sophomore year, we could smoke in the "circle," which was right out front. It was more strictly enforced sophomore year. Junior year, we were delegated to a strip of land past the football field that had a security guard assigned. Senior year, we had to go off campus. We had an open campus, so everyone would just walk in circles; you weren't allowed to stand still. This move was greatly contested, and our interdisciplinary science class made presentations to the town council to protest the restriction. We lost, obviously.
When I was in college (GW), we could smoke in our dorm rooms. |
Anonymous
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Yes, late '70s in Michigan. My goody-goody friends and I would joke about how there should be sections for other illegal activities as well.
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