My primary school teacher chain-smoked in class. (She did later die of lung cancer while we were still school age.)
Wow. Where and when was this?
Poorer part of the UK in the 1980s.
I had a music teacher whose lessons consisted of his dictating to us from the back of an LP sleeve whilst smoking a pipe. Bizarrely, I remember rather a lot of his lessons.
Re:The Disappearance of the Ashtray
by henrikschroder on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @05:14AM
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> In high school our teachers would smoke
When I was in elementary school in the 80's, there was a designated smoking area for students, but I think you had to be in 7th grade or above to be allowed to use it, i.e. it was seen as ok for 13-year-olds to smoke.
In high school our teachers would smoke, not in class but in the corridor leading to the classroom, and they would drop their cigarette buts on the door sill.
People would smoke in cars continuously, including my parents when we were toddlers. It was forbidden to smoke in elevators but people found that outrageous and absurd and often disregarded that rule.
McDonalds had aluminium ashtrays that I collected (stole) because they were so convenient. Here's an image of one:
https://i.ebayimg.com/thumbs/images/g/m3sAAOSwqEZjlkoe/s-l30...