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Lol. The HS here, public DOE of NYC that my older kid graduated from
had a designated area for students to smoke cigs. And kids did, and also weed in this area and no one did a thing about the weed. Luckily my daughter never went there and graduated top 5% of her class but there was no way I'd let another kid of mine go there.
Really? Only since 2008? Who was allowed to smoke in the schools up to that point? Teachers?
Teachers' Lounges at one point were (sometimes) so smoky, that the school where I student-taught had a makeshift "non-smoking Teachers' Lounge". This was long before 2008, but yes, teachers could smoke in teachers' loungers for a long time. I understand that at one point, even students (if they were of legal age) could smoke on school grounds, but most schools had a "smoking court" or whatever. Cigarettes ARE legal, even if ill-advised.
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Yes, I know in my high school in PA, not only were teachers allowed to smoke but high school students were allowed to smoke in the smoking lounge - back in the late 1970s when my brother was in school there. By the time I was there in the 1980's there was no smoking lounge at all, not even for teachers. Back in 1988 when my sister had her son, the hospital she gave birth in allowed smoking, which shocks me looking back. But I find it hard to believe that it took until 2008 to ban smoking from schools. I would have thought that it would have been much earlier - before 2000 at the latest. But given the tobacco history in the state, maybe I shouldn't be surprised.
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