Smoking teachers

[matt321]

Re: Smoking teachers

One of my old teachers let us smoke in his lesson,worse still was another teacher used to say"Before we start lets have a fag" ,on one occasion i was among a gang who got caught smoking by a teacher we got a letter home for parents to go into school and"discuss"our habit but my old dad knew i smoked went to the"discussion"and gave the said teacher a rollicking at the time it was pretty cool now looking back it was shocking

[Danniella]

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Our maths teacher used to stink of ciggies, and she used to cadge them off students.

[amethyst]

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In the 70s our Woodwork teacher use to smoke a cigar in class (yes, Wood). The technician use to often come in and ask him to 'put that light out!'

Fire hazard

[George 1978]

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In the 70s our Woodwork teacher use to smoke a cigar in class (yes, Wood). The technician use to often come in and ask him to 'put that light out!'

They were probably Woodbines for obvious reasons.

[Moonraker]

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In the 70s our Woodwork teacher use to smoke a cigar in class (yes, Wood). The technician use to often come in and ask him to 'put that light out!'

[tex]

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I used to think that it was double standards when school rules used to prevent pupils from doing various things, yet the teachers did the same thing in the sanctuary of the staff room, even if they were old enough to do such a thing - "don't do what I wouldn't do" indeed. How many schools actually have teaching staff wearing uniform?

Cf Grange Hill series 9 - staff room smoking, and also the very first episode of Please Sir! - how can they "teach" pupils right and wrong when they flaunt the rules themselves?

Rules?...Pah!!

[George 1978]

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I used to think that it was double standards when school rules used to prevent pupils from doing various things, yet the teachers did the same thing in the sanctuary of the staff room, even if they were old enough to do such a thing - "don't do what I wouldn't do" indeed. How many schools actually have teaching staff wearing uniform?

Cf Grange Hill series 9 - staff room smoking, and also the very first episode of Please Sir! - how can they "teach" pupils right and wrong when they flaunt the rules themselves?

[Silver Bear]

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The aroma of pipe tobacco is one of my strongest olfactory memories of school. Many of the older masters (especially the English masters) smoked pipes - indeed appeared to be addicted to them.

[Twocky61]

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If our teachers smoked we were unaware of it

[George 1978]

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Also, it never seemed to be PE teachers that smoked for all the obvious reasons - no, they were promoting health and fitness, and so you would never see them take up the habit.

[George 1978]

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My class spied a student teacher having a packet of Silk Cut sitting just inside her open handbag. No doubt that she would have said, upon being questioned, that she had confiscated the article from a Year 11 class. I would have put her in the same ballpark as the science teacher who would used to go to the pub at lunchtimes, next door but two from the aforementioned school.

[DemonEyeX]

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It seems amazing now, but back in the late 80s, on the last day of term, from what I remember.
About 30 odd kids were squeezed into the staff room, with all the teachers chain smoking.
For a special treat, we were allowed to watch a film on the gigantic TV & video setup.
Surrounded by a thick mist of tar & nicotine we viewed Stallone's First Blood.
We were about 9 or 10 at the time !
Highly doubtful that could happen these days.

[Mulletino]

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TBH because my parents smoked in the home throughout my childhood in the 70s I couldn't really smell smoke on people but the Teacher's Room always smelled of smoke, although I do recall "teacher's breath" which was always a mix of ciggies and coffee.

[Zincubus]

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Nowt wrong with smoking

Mmmmmm not strictly true ....

[darren]

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Yes in my schools you could smell the smoke in their offices.

I often had teachers that smoked in the classroom.
One i remember had a pipe mr johnston i think his name was.
Can you imagine what the office where they all sit at dinner break must have been like.

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.