Smoking teachers

[Arran]

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My mother might be completely wrong here but she always felt that many headmasters of public schools were soft on smoking because Winston Churchill used to smoke cigars.

Most public schools - even in the 1990s - would allow 16 year olds to smoke on their grounds. The term 'legal smoker' was commonplace in public schools amongst Y11 students. In some public schools the headmaster would take 6th form students to the pub on their 18th birthday.

[Richard1978]

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Even though hardly any of my family smoked I used to know a lot of the brands, thanks to the ads in The Observer magazine having lots of ads for them & the machines in pubs, not to mention all the Grand Prix teams sponsored by them.

[Pussywillow]

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Has anybody encountered a headmaster who smoked in his office? It was quite commonplace in public schools well into the 1980s and many of them would smoke in front of parents, especially if they smoked cigars because they thought it was classy.

Oh yes ! My Father ! See my thread in the Misc Memories forum.

[Arran]

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Has anybody encountered a headmaster who smoked in his office? It was quite commonplace in public schools well into the 1980s and many of them would smoke in front of parents, especially if they smoked cigars because they thought it was classy.

[Pussywillow]

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I don't think that cheaper brands are always the most popular with kids. Cigarettes, like anything else, have to have a cool factor and image. I can remember that Benson & Hedges were quite popular with under age smokers. So was Marlboro and Lambert & Butler. Silk Cut was for girls.

I think that you can tell a lot about the lifestyle and personality of a teacher by what they smoke. A teacher who smoked Woodbines would be very different from a teacher who smoked Raffles who would be very different from a teacher who smoked John Player Special.

This should be in a different 'fred really, now we are discussing brands of fags. I've given them up now, but when I was a kid in the early 70's I smoked whatever I could get my hands on.

Players No.6 were the staple back then, usually 10's, we never had enough money for 20's. They were horrible to be honest, but not quite as foul as Players No.10 or Sovereigns. You could get these from machines (cue another thread?) outside shops and a few pence pinched or purloined somehow would buy you 10 No'6's. I even remember the price - 9½p for 10! Even on my meagre paper boy's pay I could afford those.

I could go on, and I will in a different thread than this one.

Jack Lemmon who I started this thread with always smoked Dunhill's. We were too afraid to pinch his stuff - or couldn't. Aye his smoke never did us any harm.

[Arran]

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I don't think that cheaper brands are always the most popular with kids. Cigarettes, like anything else, have to have a cool factor and image. I can remember that Benson & Hedges were quite popular with under age smokers. So was Marlboro and Lambert & Butler. Silk Cut was for girls.

I think that you can tell a lot about the lifestyle and personality of a teacher by what they smoke. A teacher who smoked Woodbines would be very different from a teacher who smoked Raffles who would be very different from a teacher who smoked John Player Special.

[staffslad]

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Interesting question, Arran. I would imagine among pupils the cheaper brands would have been more popular, but not sure about teachers. I am tempted to say brands like Park Drive had a general popularity, or at least there seemed to be a lot of them about at the time--70s.

[Arran]

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What brands of cigarettes and tobacco were popular with teachers? Were they the same brands that were popular with the students?

[Richard1978]

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I remember the teachers at my secondary school had to go into the boiler room to smoke, as the staff room was non-smoking.

[staffslad]

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The block was demolished in the school summer holidays and we came back to find new blocks had been built inside the school, but there were plenty of other out-of-the-way places to have a crafty smoke as our school had quite extensive grounds.

I also remember that at least one shop in the town would sell school kids a ciggie and a match for 10p, so it was quite common to see kids smoking on their way to school or going back home.

[zabadak]

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I must say, when I saw the title of this thread, I was expecting something else...

[darren]

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I can imagine the smell of the smoke was very strong indeed.
The teachers prob thought we have better things to worry about.

I had a teacher at secondary school who smoked a pipe in class must say pipe smelt better than cigarettes.

at my secondary school, there was a dilapidated block of boys' toilets separate from the main school buildings where the pupils would smoke at break times. The teachers must have known about it and could have stopped it but no-one seemed all that bothered--just as long as the smoking pupils were discreet about it.

[staffslad]

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At my secondary school, there was a dilapidated block of boys' toilets separate from the main school buildings where the pupils would smoke at break times. The teachers must have known about it and could have stopped it but no-one seemed all that bothered--just as long as the smoking pupils were discreet about it.

[Littlelen]

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[QUOTE=Littlelen;206374]I was such a naughty girl and used to sneak in the art department staff room and liberate the teachers cigarettes :O . can't believe what an angel I turned out to be later on.[/QUOTE

Oh and yes Mr. Cole they were yours and I enjoyed every single one I took back from you, you evil swine

[Littlelen]

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I was such a naughty girl and used to sneak in the art department staff room and liberate the teachers cigarettes :O . can't believe what an angel I turned out to be later on.