High School

[martha1014]

We were talking about high school the other day and I remembered we had a smoking bench in the 70s. This would be an outrage now. We had numerous student smoking cigarettes at the bench. During this time I did not smoke full time so I never used the bench.

My how things have changed.

 

[Zelphie]

Wow that would be an unimaginable outrage these days. A bench supplied for teenage smokers and in school too. I think I would have liked that.
At my school all we had was the bathroom and it wasnt allowed but it was difficult to get in trouble because it was impossible to pinpoint who was smoking any a given time in a room always so filled with smog.

 

[Mickirette]

You would get benched for smoking now.

 

[HighHeeledGoddess]

They took away the benches and replaced them with condom dispensers and day cares. Yes, how things have changed.

 

[Deafmomm]

When I was in high school (graduated in 1986) we had the "Smoking Ramp". An entire covered patio outside one of the backdoors of the school. I remember spending my entire study hall period out there every day rain, snow or shine. My daughter cannot believe this was allowed!

 

[RedForeman]

We just smoked up on the way to/from school since it was a hassle to get a permit to the approved smoking area. Besides, we weren't just smoking cigarettes

 

[mutt4a]

They took away the benches and replaced them with condom dispensers and day cares. Yes, how things have changed.

Not in Texas they dont

 

[scheherezade]

When I was in high school (graduated in 1986) we had the "Smoking Ramp". An entire covered patio outside one of the backdoors of the school. I remember spending my entire study hall period out there every day rain, snow or shine. My daughter cannot believe this was allowed!

We had a smoking ramp too. Ran outside from the lower level of the high school to the upper. Went to school in PA. You just needed a signed permission slip to use it!

 

[Switched]

We smoked in the school, between periods. Boy times have changed.

 

[shanagan]

We had a courtyard area outside of the cafeteria (graduated in '88). Very, very weird to think about now.

 

[Java_Az]

Smoking was not allowed on my high school campus. But it didn't stop anyone There was several places people went to smoke. Most of the teachers didn't care and would look the other way unless you did something to piss them off, then they for sure would bust you. We did have one teacher that would check what brand you were smoking as long as you had a brand of PhillipMorris he wouldn't do anything. He owned Phillip Morris stock was the reason why.

 

[needspaddedwalls]

Every two periods we got to go outside and smoke and this was in the 90s . Never would fly now.

 

[ddracer]

When I was at secondary school my form tutor was the drama teacher. As I was teachers pet and a bit of a loaner I used to sit in her office having a smoke and a coffee and a natter at break and lunch times.

Miss Hope-Brown her name was and she was one of those real influences in my life.

 

[flbutterfly1]

We had a smoking area outside the cafeteria, all you needed was the permission slip signed. This coming from a school that allowed dip and chew as long as you wore the spit can around your neck. It was 1994 in tobacco land in NC. I used to be able to walk out the front of the school and pick tobacco off the plants, there were feilds of them. ahhhh the good times.

 

[Serpentine]

My first year of high school was the last year of the student smoking section there. That was 84, and yeah, nobody can believe that I used to be able to smoke at school as a Sophomore. Heh. After they took it away, we just ran across the street and smoked far enough away so that the security guards couldn't send us to the principal's office. We also constantly smoked between class in the girl's restroom, with a lookout of course.

 

[stltransporter]

we had a smoking lounge too in 85 that was monitored by the vice principal. I heard they did away with it by the 90s

 

[PaulB]

There was absolutely no sanctioned smoking facility where I went to H.S. in the late '60s - early '70s. Closest there was was one secluded embankment/stairway where the school grounds adjoined a quiet street. It was popularly know as ".... Row." I think it was the smoking place for a generation before me, and I'd be curious to know if it still is.

 

[Tyger0902]

While I was jr. high we kept hearing in high school they allowed smoking in the classrooms (this was back in 1985). Well, the next yr they changed it and students were allowed to smoke only between classes also only the juniors and seniors were allowed off campus. Sucked being in 10th grade and be the only grade not allowed off campus. Of course that didn't stop us. When your friends have older brothers/sisters that drove. '

Of course by 1988 they stopped smoking on campus altogether.