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[quote=Anonymous]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.

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