I was just talking to my daughter about this yesterday, a square with trees and ashtrays between the gym and cafeteria. It is unbelievable that they had a smoking area for minors.
“I was just talking to my daughter about this yesterday, a square with trees and ashtrays between the gym and cafeteria. It is unbelievable that they had a smoking area for minors.”
Had the same thing at my high school, in the 70s, what was up with that? Smoking being illegal for those under 18.
I wouldn’t be surprised if public schools had designated scr*ing areas for minors.
No, this unbelievable hysteria is a fairly recent phenomenon.
Huckleberry Finn smoked a corncob pipe and I was able to smoke in the hallways of the schools and everywhere else outside the classrooms when I was in Jr. High and High School. In College, we were allowed to smoke INSIDE the classrooms.
For those of you thinking I am a fossil; this was the late '60's and early '70's.
My wife, myself, the obstetrician and the attending nurse all smoked in the delivery room when my kids were born in 1982 and 1984.
Control freaks with nothing else to do recently changed all of that for no good reason.
Smoking area in my high school as well.
It has only been in the last 15 years or so that smoking became an activity restricted only to adults. Prior to that, anyone could smoke --much like anyone of any age today today can drink caffeine. As a fourth-grader, my mom used to give me a couple of bucks and send my on my bike to the grocery store to buy her two packs of Now 100s. Nobody batted an eye. There were plenty of 13-14 year old "freaks" as we called them in Junior High smoking at the bus stop. It was perfectly legal (and many of these "freaks" are engineers now).
Believe it or not, there was a time when 18-year old high school seniors could legally drink beer.
Now we've raised the smoking age to 18, the drinking age to 21 and the age of full independence to 26. And we wonder why we have full-grown men and women behaving like adolescents?