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[mnhnhyouh]

Hi, my name is mnhnhyouh and I am a smoker.

I work in a public high school and smoke in the male teacher's room, with the other teachers. The principal said he thought about banning it, as it is illegal to smoke on the school grounds, but thought it would be unwise. His own addiction probably helps with this

What is the deal where you work ?

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[Zutronius]

I work in a girls high school and smoking is done outside. I don't smoke so it's nice to not breathe it where I'm working. I find the odd cigarette butt in the washroom though.

[drunkenfud]

I work at a middle school, all smoking is done outside. On nice sunny days like today I really enjoy it

[Yu_Bum_suk]

I work at a combined middle-high school. There are more smokers at the high school and we usually smoke on the back steps right by the back door. At the middle school I and the three other smokers go around to the side of the building. I also sometimes find cigarette butts in the toilet and one of the computer teachers sometimes smokes in his office. Our now retired head of the admin. office used to smoke anywhere but the principal's office, including the staff room or while walking down the main corridor of the school past all the students.

[waynehead]

I go outside and try to be discrete, but I don't try too hard. Pretty much all of the other male co-teachers smoke and do the same thing, so I've never heard anything about it from co-teachers. My middle school kids give me a (jokingly) hard time about it if they catch me, tho.

[mrsquirrel]

We have lots of stop smoking posters around school.

We also have a smoking room.

I regularly see students being beaten for smoking.

Hmm.

[WoBW]

They're pretty sensitive about it at my elementary school. My supervisor told me that students had complained about me smelling of smoke.

I go outside the school and out of sight around a corner. Since the complaints I don't smoke within an hour of classes, so no more quick puffs in the ten minute breaks. I thought it would be hell going from 8am to 1150 without a smoke, but as I'm busy I don't really notice it.

[CentralCali]

In Busan, all government-run schools are designated as smoking-free buildings. Being a non-smoker, I appreciate the sentiment. The problem is that the smokers in the school tend to congregate in the basement parking area and smoke near the elevator doors. That means that the rest of us get a face full of that crud when we enter or exit the elevator in the basement.

Some of the kids enjoy tossing a handful of water over the stall doors when they smell tobacco smoke in the rest rooms. The offending smoker cannot really complain about that either as they are not supposed to be smoking on school grounds in the first place.

[Underwaterbob]

I work in two different schools and they definitely smoke in the bathrooms of both. Sometimes in the hallways of the school in the boonies that I work at, but not as much since the principal changed this year to a non-smoking one.

[Colorado]

When I first arrived at my middle school, several of the male teachers and the principal and I smoked in the large teacher's lounge across the hall from the teacher's office. It had couches and a TV, very comfortable. Then most of the smokers quit or got transfered to other schools over the break. After several false stops, I ended up quitting myself. I think we have only one smoking teacher this year. They brought in some carpenters and walled off a section of the teacher's lounge, about the size of a closet, with it's own window and ventelator fan. Inside the room is a chair and a desk with an ashtray. That's where you go to smoke at my school.

[BS.Dos.]

At my Girls MS, there is only one other teacher who smokes besides me; the art teacher, and we do so outdside the main entrance. Nobody seems to mind. There's also some nice kind of landscaped gardens in the school grounds with benches that I sometimes sit on when it's nice out and mull over how great both I and my life are.

However, things at my main school (boys PHS) couldn't be more different. There are 17 teachers in total of whom, including the VP, there are 12 of us that smoke. Until about a 2-months ago we used to pop outside the teachers room and stand around smoking openly, but that has all changed since our Principal inposed a smoking ban, which she has reinforced with on-the-spot fines of 20,000 won if you're caught. Initially, nobody really took any notice, but after she caught a couple of teachers smoking on two occassions and fined them, everyone now takes the no smoking ban rather more seriously.

So, how do I and my CTs get around this? We all hide in the students toilets puffing away like naughty teenagers, which is ridiculous as back in my day it was usually the pupils who had to smoke in the toilets. I'm actually an on-off type of smoker anyway. I'm trying to knock smoking on the head during the week and just smoke a few when I've got a beer in my hand. I've also got an exam next week, which is causing me no end of stress at the moment, but the pack a day of Marlboro Lattes I'm currently getting through certainly helps.

Anyway, all this talk of smoking has made me fancy one so I'm just nipping off to the bogs for a sneaky one.

[TheUrbanMyth]

None of the teachers at my school smoke...then again about 70% of them are recent uni female graduates...so that probably accounts for that.


Anyway it's nice that I don't have to spend 8 hours a day smelling that nasty crud.

[Scotticus]

I'm on my second year at this all-girl's high school and I have yet to even smell smoke on a teacher. Tons of anti-smoking posters and stuff like that around. I also haven't seen any cigs in the bathroom or anything like that.

[Smee]

At one of my schools they smoke around back. At the other school, they smoke outside of the main entrance. And outside of the side entrance. And outside of the cafeteria. And in the parking lot. And often in the mens' bathroom. The best was last year when the principal at one of my rural schools would smoke in the teachers' office and walk around the building with a cigarette.

[mnhnhyouh]