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Like a pediatrician rounding on cystic fibrosis children in the hospital and smoking at their bedside. That's what the early 1980s were like. (lemmy.world)
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[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

...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.ee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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)

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 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...