Older Adults Are Sharing The Unique Experiences From The Past That Have Young People Confused

""The amount of smoking everywhere was unreal. These days, I get touchy if there's a lingering odor of pot. But in the '60s and '70s, the smell of cigarettes or smoke was everywhere: in homes, restaurants, grocery stores, workplaces, restrooms, outdoors, and even on people's clothes and hair. The only place I hardly ever smelled it was in elementary school classrooms. The smell drove me bonkers!""

""In sixth grade (1969), we had a copy of The NY Times on each of our desks every morning, and we'd discuss the day's important articles in our class. In 1974, our high school had a smoking area outside for students, and if you were 16 and had parental permission, you could smoke out there during lunch or free time. Of course, no one checked for permission, so anyone who chose to smoke did." - icykid611"

Cigarette smoking was pervasive in homes, restaurants, stores, workplaces, restrooms, outdoors, and on clothing and hair during the 1960s and 1970s. Schools routinely used physical swats, writing lines, or corner-facing as disciplinary measures for misbehavior. Some classrooms received daily newspapers for classroom discussion, and some high schools had outdoor smoking areas where students could smoke with parental permission that often went unchecked. Outhouses remained in use in certain areas and persisted in individual households into the mid-1980s. Those everyday norms contrast strongly with modern public health and school discipline expectations.

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