The Board of Education is committed to providing students, staff, and visitors with an indoor tobacco-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 an indoor tobacco-free environment is consistent with the role-modeling responsibilities of teachers and staff to our students.

For purposes of this policy, "use of tobacco" shall mean all uses of tobacco, including cigars, cigarettes, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco, snuff, or any other matter or substances that contain tobacco, in addition to papers used to roll cigarettes.

In order to protect students and staff who choose not to use tobacco from an environment noxious to them, and because the Board cannot, even by indirection, condone the use of tobacco, the Board prohibits the use of tobacco within any indoor facility owned or leased or contracted for by the Board, and used to provide education or library services to children.

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

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

Revised 12/19/94
Revised 4/25/05