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Filed under: In The News, Weird But True, Health
Teachers can't smoke at a school in Wales, but students might be allowed to indulge their addiction. Credit: stevendepolo, Flickr
Headlands School in Penarth, near Cardiff, forbids teachers from smoking anywhere on campus, according to The Sun, but may build an area where kids can smoke while at school. "The aim is to restrict smoking to a small area," principal Matthew Burns told the British newspaper.
The British Medical Association issued a statement about the matter, according to The Sun, and called the move "inappropriate."
Inappropriate? How about crazy? This is a reverse case of "do as I say, not as I do." Adults are forbidden from engaging in a behavior most people consider to be detrimental to your health, but let's set aside a special area to let kids light up during school hours.
According to the American Lung Association, as many as 4,000 kids in the U.S. try their first cigarette on any given day, and more than 2,000 others younger than 18 become new, regular smokers. For those doing the math, that's more than 750,000 new daily smokers each year in the United States alone.
What would you do if your child's school made a move like this?
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10-07-2009 @ 9:48AM
AM said...I'd be praising the move to have teachers be non-smoking, and fighting to have the move be a part of a universal non-smoking campus. They're policy is ridiculous in my book!
(Kids (and me) hate when teachers come back from smoking breaks...the smoke wake stinks, and their breath is worse-and teachers do talk to kids one on one...)
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10-07-2009 @ 9:48AM
AM said...oops: their policy...not they're...(it's early)
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