When smoking was allowed on campuses (campusii), was it allowed in lecture halls? And if it was, was there some kind of rule or etiquette, like only in the back row?
What were your experiences with this? Was it distracting?
I think being able to have a stick in class would help me stay awake in this early morning MicroBi.
When I went to university in the 80s, we smoked everywhere except for inside lecture halls, but the back rows were reserved for drinking 
btw, it’s campuses or extremely rarely campi. 
My college had at least one small auditorium with ashtrays built into the seats. Building from the late '40s, I think.
Smoking isn’t even allowed outdoors on campus anymore? When I was in school in the 90’s, you could still get a dorm room that allowed smoking if you so desired, but you were limited to certain floors of certain residence halls (IIRC, it would have been very tough for a freshman to get a smoking room). All other indoor smoking was banned, but in Minnesota at the time, most indoor smoking was banned in public places except bars and restaurants.
Back in the day (until the '70s, IIRC) we smoked everywhere. I smoked in class–and I was usually on the first row–and later I smoked while lecturing. Then smoking was banned in classrooms, then everywhere except private offices, then inside buildings and now within 9 meters (where did that number come from) of all building entrances. It has not banned all over the campus, but that could come. As it is, there is a pile of butts 10 meters from every building entrance.
Eventually, I expect to see smoking made illegal. After all, it is probably at least as harmful–probably more so–than marijuana. Note that I think this would be a serious mistake, like all drug laws. They accomplish nothing except to sustain an extremely profitable enterprise.
In college during the late 70’s/early 80’s. For the life of me I can’t remember ever seeing anyone smoking in a large lecture hall but that’s probably because smoking was so prevalent that I just didn’t notice. In those days the whole world smelled like an ashtray so nobody noticed.
I remember one professor who always lectured with a butt in his hand - I would watch that ash get longer and longer, because he never flicked it, until I couldn’t pay attention to anything else. It was a relief when the ash finally fell and I could pay look at the chalk board again.
I visited my alma mater last year (in VA) and people were smoking all over the place on campus, just not in lecture halls, the student union, or buildings of that ilk. Areas outside some buildings truly stank from all the residual smoke.
I don’t know if smoking is still permitted in residence halls there.
Yup, in the late 60s, at hte junior college I attended, you could even smoke in the classrooms if the teacher allowed it. Seemed to be up to them, but everywhere else I can remember it was 100% allowed.
I just graduated Tulane U. in 2009. You can still smoke on campus everywhere, as long as you’re outside.
[QUOTE=Tamex;12190425All other indoor smoking was banned, but in Minnesota at the time, most indoor smoking was banned in public places except bars and restaurants.[/QUOTE]
Bars & restaurants are covered by the bans now.
In addition, the Minneapolis Park Board is now considering banning smoking on all Park property in Minneapolis (about 1/6th of the area of the city), due to the expense of cleaning up after smokers.
In most of L.A. and Santa Monica, you can’t smoke anywhere but your own home. IIRC, beaches, parks, outdoor sporting/concert venues are all no smoking. There might be some designated smoking areas here and there at places like university campuses, but generally speaking you can’t do it.
Columbia College, Chicago, mid-late 1980’s. I had several instructors that would smoke through the entire class, one after another. We were allowed to smoke as well. Many of us did. I don’t remember anyone complaining, but I’m sure some people were uncomfortable.
When I went to college in the early 80s you could smoke everywhere except classrooms and lecture halls. They had rules about food and drink, but I would always bring coffee so the drink wasn’t enforced.
In a sort of reverse, we had non smoking areas, and every other place was smoking allowed.
When I went to high school in the 70s we had a smoking court, where the students were allowed to go outside and smoke. You were supposed to have a permission slip from your parents but I can’t recall anyone actually having one
Union College, early 70s. Smoking was allowed in classrooms. They even had paper-backed foil ashtrays available.
When I was taking classes in the mid eighties smoking was banned from inside the buildings except for the large breakroom in the library where the vending machines were. That was full smoking. Also every building entrance had benches and ashtrays.
I was just thinking the other day about when I was in Junior Achievement in the mid seventies. JA was an off campus program that taught high school kids about business by setting up little companies that made and sold products. They had a building in a shopping center with individual rooms for each company. The whole building was full smoking. For kids, staff and counselors. I will never forget the smell of wood being sawn on table saws (by the Jr. Achievers!) mixed with a heavy fog of cigarette smoke.