Like a pediatrician rounding on cystic fibrosis children in the hospital and smoking at their bedside. That's what the early 1980s were like. - eviltoast
  • ...m...@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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    4 months ago

    …my high school phased out the student smoking area starting my freshman year in 1986: the older classes still had access, but not mine, and by 1990 it was fully decommissioned into a landscaped atrium…

    …when i worked as an apartment groundskeeper in the early nineties, my first two hours of every day were spent cleaning cigarette butts throughout the complex…

    • RaccoonBall@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Did the kids just smoke somewhere else?

      I don’t think we had an official smoking section but there was always a big crowd in the parking lot (early 2000s)

      • ...m...@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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        4 months ago

        …i know people smoked off-campus but i’m pretty sure it was verbotten anywhere on-campus for students my age and younger: i was resolutely accosted by faculty for wielding a convincing fake cigarette in the parking lot after-hours…