• llothar@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    I remember that in pre-school in around 1990 we made clay ashtrays for father’s day. My father did not smoke but they told me to make one anyway…

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      3 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…

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        3 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)

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          3 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…

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      3 months ago

      I also made one. But mainly out of choice. My parents didn’t even smoke. I guess I was weird that way.