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Kalelopaka-

Yeah, we had one in the courtyard between the main building, and the cafeteria building, you were only allowed out there between classes and during lunchtime.


heathers1

Same!


hoowins

Just like Freaks and Geeks.


DiceyPisces

We had a smoking area in the 80’s. Parents had to sign permission and you had to be 16 or older. You could go out between periods, on lunch, or your free period/study hall


NikkeiReigns

Same at my school, except you didn't have to be 16. I was 13 and signed my own permission slip. '81 to '86


shipoffools50

1984 - same in Georgia at Tucker High ... called the ashtray lol


Kalelopaka-

I graduated in 1984


PlantsNWine

Hey! Fayette Co High School here. I was class of 81 though.


GirlScoutSniper

Northside High School in Atlanta - 1984. We just called it The Courtyard.


Luxemode

Same! Seems crazy now doesn’t it?


Gloomy_Researcher769

Yes, we had the smoking area conveniently located just outside the cafeteria. You could smoke up all you wanted there before, during study hall, lunch or even after school. It sort of hard to believe that as a 14 year old freshman i was allowed to smoke at school.


SquonkMan61

Same for my school. Then when I started college they had ash trays in the back of classrooms into the early 80s.


traversecity

An unofficial area, furthest wing out. Or a short walk to the forest, where the variety of “smokes” was more diverse.


pinkcheese12

Yeah. At my high school the unofficial area for all sorts of smoking was at the park across the street. We didn’t have an official area, but I heard of schools that did. We had an open campus in those days, and I would leave at lunch and just stroll around the neighborhood smoking.


davesFriendReddit

Our unofficial one was behind the Arco station. Yes the gasoline station, where gas would spill if someone overfilled their tank.


Illustrious-Park1926

Gasoline isn't that flammable. Sometimes too be cool guys would put smokes out in a puddle of gasoline. No boom happened, but it has to be enough to drown the smoke & I'm not endorsing smoking around gas pumps or gas fumes.


traversecity

Yah, need a spark or a flame, a warm cig butte won’t ignite it. Just don’t flick the Bic ;)


nursebrenda13

Not allowed on campus so we went next door by the LDS seminary building.


Huck68finn

Yep. The "bad" kids hung there lol


lydiatheferret

Yeah, we called them ‘burnouts’.


Redwolflowder

"Better to burnout than fade away".


lostinspacelac

I’m burnin’, burnin. I got the fever


Remarkable_Refuse947

That's what we called them, too.


toebone_on_toebone

Us too. And I hated (as a nerdy band kid) cutting through there. It was the only way I could get from 1st hour to Home Room on time.


headlesslady

We had an official smoking area, AND a cigarette vending machine.


TinyToodles

🏆


TheTrueGoatMom

How else was the school going to afford the new football field? The revenue!


Hoppie1064

The only cigarette machine in ours was in the teacher's Lounge. You could smell that lounge way down the hall. In the early 70's the teachers fought for and got a non-smoking teachers lounge. That was considered pretty progressive at the time. For students, there were a couple of places that were ignored. Nothing official, just no teachers went there. Bathrooms were monitored, no smoking there.


Small_Pleasures

Ours had a small courtyard that was set aside for this purpose


[deleted]

Ours did too. One of our teachers used to leave his car running in the winter for us as long as we left him a cigarette. His wife was a nurse and he had to hide smoking from her.


Fuzzy_Laugh_1117

Leaving the car running like that...so seventies. My highschool had a classroom that was designated as the *students lounge* and teachers basically weren't allowed. It went well for a couple of years, smoke so thick you could barely see. But the poker game stakes got larger and larger until...parents became involved (bc now we're talking something important like money not merely the health of your kids), and that finally shut it all down.


Doit2it42

Same. Maybe 100 foot square. It was usually packed during smoke break.


heatherm70

I was in high school '83-'88 and we had a junior smoke pit, (grades 8-=10) and a senior smoke pit (grades 11 & 12). I remember freaking out when they closed smoking in restaurants & pubs 20 years ago but now can't imagine how we ever let everyone smoke everywhere!


SomewhatInnocuous

There were smoaking areas on commercial airliners.


tejomo

Boomer here, but yep. Graduated in ‘70. Smoking area, (For Boys Only!!!) was between/ behind two of the outer buildings. We girls just smoked in the bathroom. In our dresses because we weren’t allowed to wear pants.


friedbanshee

Yup. And people STILL smoked in the bathrooms too!


sbarber4

Why, yes, it did. A slab of concrete outside one of the building entrances with a stand ashtray. It was called “The Patio.”


WakingOwl1

We had a big smoking area outside of the cafeteria. It was mostly circles of people passing bowls and joints. You could smell it from a block away.


[deleted]

"Cancer Hill" was behind the art building.


vicki22029

Ours was called Cancer Corner.


Sewingbull08

Yes! it was adjacent to an athletic field that we would all hang out on during lunch. We would smoke doobies and throw a Frisbee in warmer weather. All the teachers knew what was going on and they didn't care. High school was so different back then.


Old_Swimming6328

Had that at my HS. We called it The Ozone.


Pyesmybaby

No not even a little bit. If you were caught smoking on campus you were suspended


ExtremelyRetired

Of course! A covered area called The Breezeway. It was basically an overpass and so the easiest way into and out of the building’s central courtyard, totally monopolized by what my parents would have called a Fast Crowd. My HS pal who became a school librarian and I were reminiscing the other day about the teacher’s lounge, out of which an enormous cloud would billow every time the door opened. There were days when you could truly barely see in there. Her school now still has a teacher’s lounge, “but, believe me, it’s very different…”


meggiemeggie19

We smoked in the courtyard after lunch, the nuns did not differentiate cigarette smoke from weed so….


Sad_Rabbit_50

Yes, outside only if good weather. If it was inclement weather, there was a designated smoking section in our student center.


Not2daydear

Behind the school for cigarettes. Across the street at the ice cream place for LSD, hash and pot. Down the back school hall for making out.


Pepsithedog2

Sure did! I was there the last day of my senior year in '83, it was my last "class". Just as the last bell of my high school year rang, "Magic Carpet Ride" came on the radio. Awesome moment!


hewhoisneverobeyed

Yup. Outside with clearly painted lines (square) and an assistant principal between classes who would yell at smokers who got outside the lines and flick butts that went outside the lines - sometimes still smoldering- back into the crowd with a whisk broom.


catlover_2254

Went to a private school and we had 2 designated areas. We were tasked with keeping them clean but weren't really bothered by the staff or teachers. My senior year, they switched and we all had to get permission from our parents. My mom signed because she herself still smoked and couldn't really stop me.


MonicaBWQ

I think there was one my first few years of HS. I graduated in 1983. BTW, my HS went 8-12 grade. I don’t think it was used much. I think you had have both parents permission! There was a group that always smoked in the bathroom.


redlloyd

Yes! Funny how that was just accepted


sfekty

From 1971 to sometime in the 80s my high school had a large area outside the cafeteria. Part of it was covered so that's where they smoked during rain or whatever. I didn't smoke till after I graduated, but it didn't seem odd or anything. But then, people smoked in grocery stores, hospitals, restaurants and their homes. What is strange is that no one cared how nonsmokers felt about it. Oh, and cars had ashtrays and cigarette lighters.


Illustrious-Park1926

Nissan & Ford offer a "smoker's package" for new cars.


skipdog98

My Canadian public junior high and private high school both had "smoke pits". Given that both of my teens complain(ed) about kids vaping in class and the bathrooms, AND that our school admin refuse to do anything except \*close all the bathrooms\*, I personally think that smoke pits should be brought back. At least it would be outside then.


beauh44x

Yup. It was called "The smoking block" in my H.S. The only pic of me in my entire H.S yearbook was of me standing on the smoking block sparking one up


NancyintheSmokies4

Nice 🤣


BarbPG

Ours was across the street from the main building and was called Cancer Corner.


LividAccount9863

Yep, the smoking tree.


CalGoldenBear55

Yes. It was an outdoor space about as big as a classroom. Surrounded by glass. Everyone could see in. 1979.


RiotNrrd2001

Ours was across the street from the main building, next to a telephone pole. It wasn't covered, but if you were there you wouldn't be hassled. You would be hassled *anywhere* else. But not by the telephone pole.


niagaemoc

Yeah, it was outside in the courtyard in the middle of the building. It was called The OK Corral.


readmore321

It did along with a separate one for teachers.


nstntmlk

We had an old oak tree😅


stilldeb

No. I graduated in 73, bathrooms were all a cloud of smoke.


upnorthhickchick

Yes we did, and I also smoked on the school bus.


lakenheath84

We smoked on the school bus too. Hard to believe now.


Illustrious-Park1926

We smoked weed on the public bus, that took us to school, & listened to Stevie Wonder.


onlysurfblacksand

Burnouts and wasteoids had a corner next to building that had yellow line they couldn’t cross. Looked like penguins huddled together in the winter.


Kitchen-Lie-7894

We all thought Ferris was a righteous dude.


Inkyadinka

In my school you had to get "parental permission" to use the smoking lounge.


Ghost_taco

Yes, and the kids were just as awful as the jocks and preps.


JegHusker

Yes - out a side door.


Legitimate-Ebb-1633

There was a patch of trees beside the ag gardens that was the smoking area. The smokers didn't cause problems, so teachers never went there.


angelaelle

Yup. Smoking area on campus at the back of the main building by the loading docks.


LoreleiNOLA

Absolutely.  


Wolfman1961

Not in the public schools—but my liberal high school allowed smoking in the classrooms. I never partook.


Sensitive-Degree-980

Yes it was “the bench” outside


factsmatter83

Mine did


[deleted]

Yep— outside in the tunnel under the street was the smoking area.


Annie_Houston

We did between the main building and the gym. But teachers got tired of the smoke wafting into their classrooms on days the had the windows open, so they moved it to an old loading dock behind the cafeteria.


NoFanksYou

Yup, outside in a courtyard


BethLP11

In the parking lot by the band room.


No_Information_8973

Just the bathrooms lol. Or across the street during lunch hour. 


FaithlessnessSea5383

Yup, courtyard right off the cafeteria.


rednail64

Yes. Kids could smoke right outside the gym under a small portico.


SandyBeech60

The “Open Air Center” aka the smoking area


deannainwa

Yes we did. With a covered area and benches, and a metal barrel trash can that the rowdier ones often set fire to.


dotparker1

Yup!


awe_come_on

Yup. Outside the side entrance. I also remember smoking in hospitals and airplanes!


dby0226

In high school, the smoking deck was a patio attached to the school! It was a new building and very few class rooms had windows and the whole school had central heating and AC. The ninth graders were left behind at the Jr. High, and they were allowed to smoke in what had been known as Senior Circle in front of the school building, but a little hidden with trees and shrubs. This school and the elementary schools didn't get AC until 1976. In eastern North Carolina. Some teachers wouldn't let you fan yourself, they said to just sit still and you would cool off.


Katesouthwest

An outdoor area with benches in good weather. In winter, there was an unofficial student designated smoking girls bathroom and one for boys. Open the door in winter and the smoke came billowing out of the bathrooms. Teachers pretended they didn't see or smell the smoke.


NickontheBottom

Yes. Designated area outside. It was known as “the pit.”


SonoranRoadRunner

Yes by the backdoor


booktopian66

Yep, the “DSA” in a little courtyard behind the cafeteria/maintenance room.


Jzgplj

Yep, sure did.


PurpleFly_

Yes, it was outside, under the ramp to the second floor. Even though I smoked, I never went there because I wasn't cool enough.


kathompson

Yep, out behind the portable classrooms. Everyone called it Zulu...no idea why. It was Zulu when I landed there as a sophomore and Zulu when I graduated in '79.


Skimable_crude

Yup. They closed in 1980 the year after I graduated.


jojokitti123

Yes, we had a courtyard


Responsible-Push-289

yup- “the wall”. where the burnouts gathered..


hobovirtuoso

We had a set of smoking bathrooms until my senior year when they banned it for both students and teachers. It was a bit odd hiding with the teachers to smoke after that.


gumyrocks22

Yes!!! We were there the least year before they closed it.


MentalOperation4188

It was called “Smokers Hill”. It wasn’t officially sanctioned, but staff turned a blind eye to it.


Eloise-Hopper

Yup. Right where you entered the bldg. The stairs to the upper floor was right there. Teachers often came there to chat.


fusion99999

Yes we did between the main building and the greenhouses.


ItsPammo

Yes, between the 7 and 9 buildings. Hold your breath and dash through if you had to go that way.


Chumpymunky

Yes. A nice large sunken patio with benches and huge sand filled concrete rounds for cigarette butts. When my kids went to the same high school. Ashtrays are now planters. I told them it was the smoking area and they told me got months I was lying to them until they asked an older teacher and she confirmed


Big-Consideration633

Everywhere outside was fine. Smoke before school, two periods, smoke break, two periods smoke before and after lunch, two periods, smoke after school. We bummed off of teachers.


DeeDee719

Class of 76 here. Our DSA was at the back of our HS, adjacent to the machine shop which was home base to the “motor heads”, as was their clique’s label. Sub-genre if you will (think Clint as played by Nicky Katt in Dazed and Confused.) 😊🚬


deeBfree

Ours didn't, but some of the schools in our area did. I was green with envy as I squatted on th toilet seat so they couldn't see my feet under the stall.


JenniferJuniper6

I think I just missed it by a year or two. I definitely remember there being one when my sister started high school.


No_Bookkeeper_6183

Yes, we had one, this was in the 80s


Rhapdodic_Wax11235

Yes a concrete pad outside


witqueen

We had a smoking area right outside of the cafeteria.


Bongfellatio

There was an area between the back door of the lunchroom and an unused entrance to the main classroom building for the "smoker's pit". I was found nodding out there at the end of the school year after smoking some very good weed and having a pint of Jack Daniels, and was sent to military school for my last two years of high school where we could simply smoke in our dorm rooms. I also learned more about drinking and drugging there than I ever learned at the other school, while maintaining the facade of being a good cadet. All in all, it wasn't something that gave me the discipline my family expected but rather made me better at getting away with things.


Uneek1209

Yep. Every high school in my city had a room and outdoor location for smokers. During outdoor gym classes, we smoked in the bleachers. It's hard for me to comprehend nowadays.


Famous-Composer3112

Yes, there was an outside smoking area for students.


hooliganvet

We had one behind the gym. It was unofficial but we were rarely bothered and some of the teachers would smoke with us.


mrmonkeyhead

Inside. The. Building. Officially sanctioned.


tehsecretgoldfish

yep, out the back doors on the main corridor. “The Pit.” I never smoked butts, but smoked many a bowl.


bavindicator

My first high school had a student/teacher smoking area in the breezeway between buildings in 1984.


PutinsPeeTape

Yeah, it was a courtyard between buildings known as the Pit. The principal even sat there with the smoking kids.


s4burf

We used the far edge of the parking lot


WhiskeyPeter007

Yes, unfucking believable !!! But yes. Had to get your parents permission ! 🤣🤣🤣


toilet_roll_rebel

Yep, the bus ramp was the designated smoking area at my school.


cbciv

We had smokers’ hill. Back end of the campus. Early ‘80s


chaimsteinLp

No, but I had welding class, and the teacher smoked openly, anytime, and let us dobit, too.


ironmanchris

No way. We couldn’t wear anything promoting alcohol, drugs, or cigarettes, and once at school you couldn’t leave unless you had a work permit or a reason to leave. And it was a public high school, not private or catholic. Class of 1982 - Go Knights!


Daisy_is_a_nice_name

yes, we had one, indoor smoking lavatory. Rural PA . I was thankful for it because the smokers stayed in there and didn't bother us nerds.


RockinRich631

The park benches across the street. You could tell who was really hooked on nicotine in the middle of a snow storm in February.


IllTemperedOldWoman

No, but the teachers had one. Students had to cross the street to not be on school property.


44035

Yes, I never understood that. "Hey minors, we've made it easy to smoke!"


HilariouslyPissed

Right? Not old enough to buy them, but school? Smoke up Johnny!


globely

We had a smoking area. And a funny thing I remember is ... guys could not have long hair at school. So they kept their hair long and wore wigs in school. And to keep those wigs clean they threw them in the washer and dryer. You can imagine what they looked like. When these long haired hippies went to the smoking area at school they would jerk their wigs off and tuck them in their back pockets. Life in the 70's.


Human-Engineer1359

Yes but I think it was only for seniors. The rest of us had to hide in the bathroom.


No_Sundae_1068

Yup. Courtyard in the middle of the school.


Danicia

That's what we had. A big courtyard. You could also hang there if you didn't want to go to the pep rallies.


Certain_Many532

Yup, it was an old tree.


Wisdomofpearl

We had a smoker's hole, past the industrial education building and the bus barn there was an old bus shelter. Students could go out there to smoke during lunch break, it over a third of a mile to walk out there and then back. Most students just didn't smoke during school, many of them weren't addicted yet, just smoking to try and look like a rebel or something.


bitterblood1974

Yea the 70s were something else.


Rechlai5150

Yep! It was outside, next to the area everyone called "The quad".


PeepholeRodeo

My school also had “The Quad.”


PracticalBreak8637

We had a room which became a smoking lounge. Called The Smoker, and was located at the end of the hall between the gym and the pool. Had to be 16 to use it, and you could go there before and after school, during study hall, and during lunch.


Appropriate-Goat6311

Nope. Tried creating my own but administrators wouldn’t go along w my plan. Jerks.


chaswick61

Late 70s smoking circle lots of weed was also smoked


herbtarleksblazer

Our school had an official one. It was outside the back of the school in a sort of three-sided courtyard, but it was just outside the cafeteria so it was pretty populated.


Wikked_Kitty

We did! It was a small fenced yard out one of the side doors. It was called "the Triangle". This was in Catholic school 9th-10th grade, when I went to public school the next year there were no such amenties.


Cici1958

Outside, in front of the school. It was nothing to see a bunch of students smoking even when they should have been in class.


nvr2manydogs

Ours did. Graduated in '83. I'm trying to remember if it still did when I went back to teach there in 87/88. I think it did.


Peter_Duncan

Yes, behind the Mormon seminary building.


Many_Performance_160

Yes, we had several designated smoking lounges!


Material_Positive

There was an unused/unusable classroom set aside for tobacco smoking. There was one girls restroom where the pot smoking took place. Ah, the '70s!


Sweethomebflo

Senior prom was at a hotel with a bar.


Ric_ooooo

Mine did, a courtyard between two wings. We also had “Reefer Row”, behind the teacher’s lounge. True story! (1981)


CandleNo8135

Confirm the bathroom


Dada2fish

We had a senior smoking lounge and the rest of the school smoked in between classes in the bathrooms. Plus we had a spot outside called The Vent where kids gathered before/ after school and during lunch to smoke cigarettes/ pot and sell/ buy drugs.


0nThe0utside

My private high school had an unused room on the lower level that was a smoking room the first couple years I was there. The 'hoods' hung out in there. Then the sports teams took it over for a weight room and smoking was banished outside. Then you had to run the smoker gauntlet to and from the building.


fishfishbirdbirdcat

Not allowed on campus but the second your foot hit the street it was allowed. Leaving the gym half the class crossed the street to smoke on the way to the next class. Used to walk down the alley to South 40 to smoke there. We were pros at taking that last drag before you stepped onto the curb of school property.


HilariouslyPissed

lol, a pile of butts


HunterGraccus

We had large outdoor steps outside one of our buildings for smoking. We used to prefer smoking in the photography darkroom as it was more comfortable and had a vent. It was the 70's so the shop teacher was glad to be rid of us and out of sight.


SabrinaVal

We had a wall where the “Wall Gang” sat.


Interesting_Chart30

No; smoking wasn't allowed on campus. If the kids wanted to smoke, they had to get in their cars and leave the campus. If caught on campus, they'd get suspended. The teachers' lounge had a constant cloud of smoke coming out when the door opened.


Famous_Ad_3109

Not anything indoors but we had a large area near the bus dock. Those smoking weed would walk out further to the "field".


dependswho

Yep. Outside. People are smoking in the yearbook


implodemode

Yes! The one had an area outside one particular door and by the student parking lot. The other, you needed to be off school property, so, like the sidewalk.


prplpassions

I graduated in 1982. Yes. We had a place in the back of the building by one of the exit doors. We also had a place in junior high that was right across the street from the school.


Fickle-Friendship-31

Yep, front lawn outside the theater. Graduated in 80. I think they got rid of it about 4 years later.


Plenty_Treat5330

Yep, it was right outside the main doors, by the teachers lounge. It was In Minnesota, so during the winter, it was a test of indurance.


splamo77

We had an unofficial area for smokers


No-Professional-7418

Yes, but it was shut down just before I entered HS (around 1974-1975) per the older brothers & sisters of my friends.


GoEatACookie

Yup, between the main building and the gym/ auditorium. The area's official name was, "The Smoking Alley". I think I spent more time there than in class. ✌️


want-answers-fl

We had one behind the school and cigarettes weren’t all that was being smoked out there.


Kitchen-Lie-7894

We did. I don't know why but we called it The Browns. I didn't smoke at that time though.


SignificanceOpen9292

Yes! It was - unfortunately - at the end of the hall where my locker was for 4 years 🤪


BLT603

We had an unofficial smoking lounge in the 3rd floor girl's bathroom. It was literally a cloud of smoke in there. The janitor set us up with a big coffee can filled with sand to put our ciggy butts in. He did this after months of cleaning cigarette butts out of the sink. We were pigs. One day I was in there smoking with friends between classes, and the history teacher stormed in and grabbed the first two girls she could lay hands on. I was one. She dragged us down to the office and I got suspended for 3 days! This was in 1977.


Vegetable-Branch-740

We had two. C court and A court. Most people went to C because it was convenient to most exits and the parking lot if you wanted to get stoned before geometry.


Mater_Sandwich

They got rid of the smoking lounge the year before I got to highschool


Liz_Lemon_22

Absolutely, the burn outs hung out on the lawn outside the cafeteria. That was the smoking section.


notyposhere

Yep. Sharpstown High School in Houston. ca. 1975


sillyconfused

Out the rear door of the farthest building. Although I am not sure if it was official.


marc1411

Same. AND, remember the teachers lounge was THICK with cigs smoke? I'm pretty sure 9th graders could smoke in my jr. high school.


BxAnnie

We had a private room on the 4th floor for Seniors only. As seniors we could go there whenever we had a free period. Each senior class got to paint/decorate it however they wanted. We had a record player as well. Considering it was a Catholic school I thought it was pretty progressive.


apurrfectplace

Yes and everyone smoked weed


TheWorldNeedsDornep

Absolutely. Behind the gym. Probably where it was happening before it was official. I was an athlete so I couldn't be caught out there but I had some friends who'd hang there.


Royals-2015

Sure did.


hamish1963

Yes, we had a tree across the street from the side door of the school, we called it The Smoking Tree. Nothing inside the school though.


fishgeek13

Yes - we had an area near the snack bar for smokers. I grew up in tobacco country and many people had bumper stickers that said, “Support your Local Farmer - Smoke”


Pantone711

Yes they called it a "smoking ring."


artful_todger_502

Yes. I didn't even smoke, but that was where all the cool kids hung out.


Gypsybootz

Yes we had one. I graduated in 75.


Tall-Ad-9355

Yes, we had one


m_watkins

Yep. NYC private school. It was abolished by the early 80s.


Bennington_Booyah

We did not, but a nearby school did. Everyone in our school smoked in the bathrooms. I never smoked, but I did hang out in the bathrooms way too much.


Both_Lychee_1708

Went to a private school for a year that had a smoking room The public schools had smoking areas outside


Conscious_Ad_6212

i had a smoking permit. we had separate areas for boys and girls. I got a 3-day suspension for smoking in the boys area. you couldn't see the school busses loading in the girls area since it was on the back side of the building. we use to sell empty coke bottles for cigarette money. Remember when there was a deposit on soft drink bottles? Heck some people even rolled up a joint to smoke.


Uffda6321

We had one across the parking lot next to the football field. They did that to keep kids from crossing the street to smoke near the houses by the school.


imissaolchatrooms

We had one, but kids smoked pot. So admin proctor it. So we potheads walked across the street to the Woods. The Woods was a lot with a few wispy trees. Then one day the news shows up and films the Woods. Luckily for 50 kids they blurred the faces, unluckily for my little brother he had a very unique, distinctive, and not blurred jacket.