Smoking rooms

Chagrin Falls high school had smoking rooms in the 80s. I don’t know when they were first created.

There was a girls smoking room and a boys smoking room. Two gutted out bathrooms with benches lining the walls. No windows just some vents that occasionally went on.

Shockingly, these were directly across the hall from the cafeteria entrance!

That must have been awful for everyone going into the cafeteria 🤮

I rarely went into the cafeteria. Issues with food, body image, worst parents.…

Anyway, I think it was the last few months I was in high school that they moved it to a smoking area in the boiler room. With windows, and a door to outside, I think. much safer for the kids smoking. And geez! Much better for everyone else.

I’m assume there is no area for kids to smoke now😂

I should not have. I only started because the smokers were in quiet places away from the crowds. It always hurt me to smoke. I grew up with chronic bronchitis. All of them were criminally neglectful. Ken, Karen, Carol. They were well aware. I had to get a parent’s signature to use the smoking room. And I would sit in the downstairs bathroom to smoke. It was not airtight.

Not even a question, not a discussion, not even a moment of pretending concern. just ignoring a sad teenage girl every day. I really hate them