[relictele]

We had an officially sanctioned smoking area between wings of a high school. Every day we’d walk by a bunch of miserable looking losers standing outside in appalling weather so they could earn bad breath that could be detected two classrooms away.

Unsurprisingly, the number of smokers never increased and probably decreased thanks to this ‘bad example’ model which far surpassed the lazy adult peer pressure excuse.

[9YearLurker]

Ha ha—we had something like that at my school too!

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

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.

[Mears]

Are those “losers” now in jail or on the dole,or even dead?

Might be interesting to do a follow up and see how they turned out.

[xtinct]

There was a smoking area in the middle of a large medical center parking lot near me (no shelter). Smokers were out there in all kinds of weather the first year (1998). Now, the center has banned smoking on the whole campus.

There are two diehards that smoke on the sidewalk.