did your high school have a smoking area for students?

[arcane1]

Poll question: did your high school have a smoking area for students?

Mine did, though I beleive it's gone now... seemed like a great idea when I was a student, but looking back it seems a bit odd..

[Lavender Brown]

1. In the woods behind the school

but not in the school itself.

[arcane1]

3. ah ok

kind of an un-official one?

[Lavender Brown]

9. LOL yeah... you would get in a lot of trouble if seen there

:scared:

[arcane1]

14. the woods behind my school..

was the 'drinking area' :P

[No Mandate Here.]

2. Niskayuna (NY) High School, 1960's

You had to have a note from your parents to use them. They were outside, between wings of the school.

Only the 'hoods' used them.

[Lavender Brown]

4. Hey...

[arcane1]

6. 1980's for me

in Virginia... no note was needed though

it was kind of like all the preppie kids hung out in the courtyard in front of the school, all the 'cool' kids hung out in the smoking area in back. It was kind of similar to a courtyard, between two of the school's buildings

[jus_the_facts]

5. Yep.....it was called the 'smokin' ring'.....

....and I agree it does seem odd...nobody really gave a flyin' fuck thru a flamin' hoola hoop about underage smokin' when we were underage....sigh....man we DID have some fun times out there though!! :smoke: :hi:

[arcane1]

10. and didn't only smoke tobacco, either :P

then again I'm not even sure there was a legal age in the 80's... I didn't get carded for smokes until I was in my 30's :P

:hi:

[jus_the_facts]

17. Exactly.....wtf indeed......

.....and yeaaaah we were 'smokin'....tokin'..feel alright baby I'm not jokin' YEAH! :evilgrin:

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

7. Not while I was a student there...

but I heard they did back in the 70's.

[sundog]

8. yes it did

when you think about it :wtf:

Isn't 18 smoking age? Or was it different in the 80's? I don't remember. No one seemed to care.

[arcane1]

15. it may have been 16 then, not sure

and it was in the heart of tobacco country, so their attitudes may have been different too

[sundog]

16. yeah, I was in Maryland

about 10 minutes from a Marlboro plant...

lots of tobacco fields

[mongo]

27. The legal age was 16 then

and our HS had a couryard where the Jr's and Sr's could smoke. No note needed.

[miss_kitty]

11. The girls bathroom in the 200s

of course, you could be suspended if caught smoking in there.

[LiberallyInclined]

12. Yes- OFF Campus.

[johnnie]

13. Yeah

The smoking lounge. It was the early 80s and it seemed better than the kids using the bathrooms. The year I graduated they asked me to be on the Smoking lounge committee to come up with what to do for the next year. the year after I left they started having the 9th graders going to that school so they needed new rules. I came up with putting an "S" on their school IDs and that's what they did.

[tk2kewl]

18. 79-83 on LI we had smoking area

right outside one of the back doors to the school.

[progmom]

19. ...but I went to school in Holland

...where EVERYONE smokes.

[Blue-Jay]

20. Across the street at Fred's Fruit Market.

On grounds, nobody was supposed to smoke.

[-..__...]

21. Yep.

Early 70's. It was an indoor smoking lounge that used to be some sort of Phys-Ed room.

The main reason cited for having the lounge was that the "powers-that-be"
thought that the image of students loitering out doors on the steps looked bad.

[southpaw]

22. Yeah... early 80's

Must not have been an 'underage smoking' law back then.

[On the Road]

23. It Would be Interesting to Do This by Decade of Graduation

I'm sure it drops off precipitously at some point.

[arcane1]

30. I thought about that..

but I wasn't sure how to include it in the poll

[shawmut]

24. Yes but they got rid of it while I was in HS

We had several of them, IIRC.

I remember how "grown up" I felt starting HS and seeing all those kids being allowed to smoke in those designated areas between class and during lunch.


Smoking was no longer allowed by my senior year, though.

[rbnyc]

25. A shed in the back parking lot.

It's like they WANTED ua to smoke pot.

Upon registration a parent had to sign if you were allowed to smoke. Then you'd have a box checked on your ID and could go out to the shed. My dad signed mine. He said he wanted it to be my choice, and he didn't want to prevent me from hanging out with friends who smoked.

This just seems crazy now!

[ScreamingMeemie]

26. Yes, the upscale Chippewa Valley had a "smoking patio" located off

the 1/4 mile walkway between the East and West buildings. Only problem for smokers was that we had exactly 8 minutes to change classes and if you had to walk from East to West there was no time for a camel. That walk was hell. The "patio" is gone, and the East building has now become a middle school, while the West was enlarged to accomodate the loss of space from the East. They originally planned them to be separate high schools, but felt that rivalry of two schools located 1/4 mile apart would be too great. How stupid of an idea was that? Oops, sorry I got off the subject.

On an interesting note, this is the high school that the show "Freaks and Geeks" was based upon. The creators went to school there. :hi:

[arcane1]

31. fortunately mine was near the lunch-room

so kids could hang out there and chain-smoke for the duration of the lunch break :P

[livetohike]

28. Late 60's in western PA

It was called the "Student Lounge" and it was a big room, larger than a classroom.

[RUDUing2]

29. yes we did...1975-1979...outside against back wall of the gym.

As long as we were there smoking was allowed...sure helped to clear the smoke out of the bathrooms!

[ohio_liberal]

32. Yes

I did my last 2 years of high school (85-86) at a joint vocational school and there was a smoking area for students.

[ernstbass]

33. Yes

it was where all the freaks and rednecks hung out.

[achtung_circus]

34. Sure, it was called outside.

We're talking 1970- 1975 here. If you were outdoors you could smoke cigarettes. As a stoner I smoked more and no one really seemed to care.