Jump to full article: Eudora (KS) News, 2009-09-03
Intro: Nervous parents needing the help of a steadying habit at the half time of a close game probably won't agree, but we support the efforts of a number of Eudora High School students to ban smoking on all school district property.
There are smokers who will see this as an unwelcome intrusion into their private affairs and just another example of a campaign to ostracize tobacco users. What, they would argue, is the harm of stepping outside during a break in a basketball game for a cigarette.
There is little chance anyone but fellow smokers would be affected by second-hand smoke (the same can not be said of those who smoke within the Laws Field confines during sporting events there).
We would counter that schools are for teaching. And adults taking a quick opportunity to grab a cigarette provide a very poor example
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