# Smoking in classrooms - how recently did this stop?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smoking-in-classrooms-how-recently-did-this-stop/465293>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 26, 2008, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smoking-in-classrooms-how-recently-did-this-stop/465293 "2008-09-26T05:23:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smoking-in-classrooms-how-recently-did-this-stop/465293/41 "2008-09-27T18:27:57Z")

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> [@DrDeth](#):
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> It’s not nessesary, just like it’s rarely nessesary to show dudes taking a piss. Look at Thank You for Smoking, where the Protagonist is a 4 pack a day man, but is never seen smoking.

Really? The Aaron Eckhart character? I don’t remember that. Are you sure he wasn’t making that up as part of a pitch or something? Not showing a 4 pack a day smoker smoke is quite unrealistic, as that is a 1 cigarette every 12 minutes habit. He would literally have a cigarette in his hand at pretty much all times.

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**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smoking-in-classrooms-how-recently-did-this-stop/465293/42 "2008-09-28T05:59:24Z")

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> [@Cisco](#):
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> Really? The Aaron Eckhart character? I don’t remember that. Are you sure he wasn’t making that up as part of a pitch or something? Not showing a 4 pack a day smoker smoke is quite unrealistic, as that is a 1 cigarette every 12 minutes habit. He would literally have a cigarette in his hand at pretty much all times.

The Doctors mentioned that that was the only reason why he lived through the attack by nicotine patches.

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**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smoking-in-classrooms-how-recently-did-this-stop/465293/43 "2008-09-28T07:36:06Z")

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When I was teaching ESL in Germany in the early 80’s, it was common to have an ashtray in the classroom for smokers. It was, however, considered polite to ask if anyone objected before lighting up. Usually nobody cared, but they always asked first.

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**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smoking-in-classrooms-how-recently-did-this-stop/465293/44 "2008-09-28T10:24:20Z")

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[QUOTE=Kyla]  
I’m pretty sure cigarettes are un-Islamic.  
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Errr no they are not!

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smoking-in-classrooms-how-recently-did-this-stop/465293/45 "2008-09-28T13:47:33Z")

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> [@Darryl\_Lict](#):
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> I was born in 1958 and I don’t ever remembering any teacher or student smoking in class. The bathrooms and teacher’s lounges were a completely different story though.

Me too, right down to my year of birth.

Though smoking in the workplace was the rule rather than the exception through the mid-80s at least.

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