Jump to full article: Milton Keynes Today (uk), 2003-09-15
Intro: A special needs school has come under fire for asking parents' permission for pupils to smoke – then offering nicotine patches for the youngsters to quit the habit.
Parents have blasted the policy at the Gatehouse School for boys as not only bizarre but downright dangerous for children as young as 12.
One father told how he received a letter, complete with a tear-off form, asking him to give his permission for his 13-year-old son to smoke. . . .
Gatehouse insisted it had a no smoking policy, for which it has won an award, and said the original letters were sent out to identify parents who consent to their sons smoking in order to target them for the anti-smoking programme.
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