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re: How many are old enough to remember smoking areas in High School

Posted on 9/26/25 at 10:09 am to
Posted by Cenlabration
The Ville of Pine
Member since Apr 2021
1311 posts
Posted on 9/26/25 at 10:09 am to
Shotgun in the back window for sure. Don't remember a designated smoking area though. I think the smokers would just smoke in the parking lot by their cars.
Posted by gumbo2176
Member since May 2018
19158 posts
Posted on 9/26/25 at 10:10 am to
I was in high school from 66-70 at Chalmette High and there were no smoking areas that I was aware of, and I was a casual smoker back then.

Guys would head to the restroom and smoke there and many times get busted by Tommy "Bumper" Warner who was one of the coaches at the time.
Posted by FredBear
Georgia
Member since Aug 2017
16718 posts
Posted on 9/26/25 at 10:13 am to
quote:

and having a shotgun in the back window of your truck in the school parking lot. Times WERE better back then.



Yep, we had smoking areas when I was in high school and some would have shotguns hung in the back window. Damn good times.

We used to sit in circles in the smoking area at lunch and smoke weed every day and the teachers didn't even bother trying to catch us
Posted by chaso
clinton ms.
Member since Aug 2006
3154 posts
Posted on 9/26/25 at 10:16 am to
My HS had a fenced in area to smoke, I had a biology class and would throw frogs on them, it was better than dissecting them ??
Posted by 2Dueces
Member since Dec 2018
353 posts
Posted on 9/26/25 at 10:17 am to
I remember!
Posted by 2Dueces
Member since Dec 2018
353 posts
Posted on 9/26/25 at 10:18 am to
We actually got a holiday the Monday after opening weekend of rifle season. The good old days!
Posted by 2Dueces
Member since Dec 2018
353 posts
Posted on 9/26/25 at 10:20 am to
Man I graduated in 95 and we still had them then
Posted by This GUN for HIRE
Member since May 2022
5441 posts
Posted on 9/26/25 at 10:33 am to
I remember but I didn't smoke. I did dip in class & had a spit bottle on my desk. My Sr yr is when they started to ban tobacco products. I just used a pocket spitoon.
Posted by cgrand
HAMMOND
Member since Oct 2009
46068 posts
Posted on 9/26/25 at 10:35 am to
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You were a classmate with Tim Valluzo? funny
I remember he got expelled
Posted by nola tiger lsu
Member since Nov 2007
6818 posts
Posted on 9/26/25 at 10:43 am to
It amazes me how old some people are that post here, and I am not young.
Posted by i am dan
NC
Member since Aug 2011
30178 posts
Posted on 9/26/25 at 10:44 am to
A bunch of my buddies and me would hang out in the boy's bathroom and dip Skoal. Weird to think we used to do that now as a 53 year old..
Posted by saint tiger225
San Diego
Member since Jan 2011
45548 posts
Posted on 9/26/25 at 10:45 am to
Y'all are so old that when I opened this thread, someone tried to give me a werthers and a peppermint.
Posted by DownHome
Below the Equator
Member since Jan 2012
10923 posts
Posted on 9/26/25 at 10:59 am to
We had a place across the street called Bunks Burgers. Made the most wicked chili cheese and frito pie.

Anyway, that's where the smoking area was for us. There was a campus spot no body used, because we had an open campus.

Bunks was good for -
Food
Smokes ( tobacco/weed) it didn't matter
Free fights, you going to fight take it off campus
Posted by TigerOnThe Hill
Springhill, LA
Member since Sep 2008
7386 posts
Posted on 9/26/25 at 11:19 am to
I can't believe we've made it to page 3 w/o a reference to that great rock song, "Smoking in the Boys Room." I'm actually old enough to remember when that was a hit the first time it was done in '73 by Brownsville Station.
Posted by Dee_oh_Dee
Member since Aug 2024
83 posts
Posted on 9/26/25 at 11:29 am to
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How many are old enough to remember smoking areas in High School


Class of '86.

Not only did we have a smoking area, my western Ky high school FFA raised two acres of tobacco as a yearly fund raiser.
Posted by AUJACK
Member since Sep 2020
973 posts
Posted on 9/26/25 at 11:50 am to
The majority of kids in my high school had or had access to a automobile.

There were some with newer cars but most were hand me downs from grand parents, parents, that were driven by older siblings before or purchased by working summer jobs. This was late late 70's and early 80's.

A good majority of kids were gear heads that swapped engines, rear ends, made mods and did whatever to get down the road, sometimes very quickly.

Mostly middle class kids.

Also, had a smoking court. Was not a smoker though.
Posted by tigersownall
Thibodaux
Member since Sep 2011
16600 posts
Posted on 9/26/25 at 11:55 am to
I remember where it was but you weren’t allowed to use it. I know people who graduated from the same high school in the 90’s and early 2000’s. Everyone was out there. They would even smoke weed.
Posted by AgCoug
Houston
Member since Jan 2014
6500 posts
Posted on 9/26/25 at 12:05 pm to
I was born in the 70s, but don't really remember smoking areas. I do remember the Teacher's Lounge used to reek of cigs back in Middle School, though.
Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
111825 posts
Posted on 9/26/25 at 12:07 pm to
quote:

CHS 79-84
the smoking area was behind the gym close to the parking lot. Most kids carried a pocket knife every day and a shotgun in the rear window rack was common…we would leave for the day and go straight to the woods to squirrel hunt

BTW nobody I knew carried or even owned a handgun. I don’t think I even ever shot a handgun until after I graduated college, it just wasn’t a thing. You either had a 22 rifle or a shotgun


Brother John join y'all?
Posted by TinGym
Member since Jun 2016
3177 posts
Posted on 9/26/25 at 12:23 pm to
I am old enough.
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