School smoking bans (letter)

Title: School smoking bans (letter)
Creator: Walsh, Raoul A.; Paul, Christine L.
Relation: Drug and Alcohol Review Vol. 27, Issue 5, p. 570-571
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09595230802245279
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2008
Description: In a recent issue of Drug and Alcohol Review, Poulin argues that school smoking bans might not be entirely benign. In the same issue, Midford perhaps goes further when noting that Poulin’s findings ‘... shed light on the unintended consequences of abstinence focused programmes, particularly for students who are at greatest risk in terms of connection to the school’. Certainly, in a tobacco control environment such as Australia, where smoking is banned in restaurants, hotels, hospitals, public transport, nearly all indoor work-places and most sports stadia, schools have a strong mandate, even an obligation, to maintain a smoke-free environment, notwithstanding any debatable negative impact. The fact that sale of tobacco products to those aged 18 years and under is illegal in all Australian states and territories makes the argument for smoke-free environments in this formative age group even more cogent.
Subject: school policies; students; smoking bans; smoking prevention; smoke-free environments
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/41560
Identifier: uon:4869
Identifier: ISSN:0959-5236
Language: eng

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