The Board of Education is committed to providing students, staff, and visitors with a tobacco and smoke-free environment. The negative health effects of tobacco use for both users and nonusers, particularly in connection with second hand smoke, are well established. Further, providing a non-smoking and tobacco-free environment is consistent with the responsibilities of teachers and staff to be positive role models for our students.

For purposes of this policy, "use of tobacco" means to chew or maintain any substance containing tobacco, including smokeless tobacco, in the mouth to derive the effects of tobacco, as well as all uses of tobacco, including cigars, cigarettes, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco, snuff, or any other matter or substance that contains tobacco, in addition to papers used to roll cigarettes and/or the smoking of electronic, "vapor," or other substitute forms of cigarettes, clove cigarettes and any other lighted smoking devices for burning tobacco or any other substance.

In order to protect students and employees who choose not to use tobacco from an environment noxious to them, and because the Board cannot, even by indirection, condone smoking and/or the use of tobacco, the Board prohibits the use of tobacco or tobacco substitute products at any facility owned or leased or contracted for by the Board.

Such prohibition also applies to school grounds, Board-owned and/or operated vehicles used to transport students, all other Board-owned and/or operated vehicles, and/or any school-related event, except in designated areas (in private vehicles).

R.C. 2923.12, 3313.20, 3313.47 3313.751, 3794 et seq
20 U.S.C. 6081 et seq., 20 U.S.C. 7182
U.S.D.O.E. Memorandum, 1995

Revised 12/15/94
Revised 8/18/05
Revised 7/21/11