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Smoking Lounge 'Sensible'

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Day
29
Month
November
Year
1971
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Editor, The News: I believe the assent by Dr. McPherson : and the school board to the request for a student-teacher smoking lounge is a sensible approach to an old problem. The idea that smoking in the "johns" should be policed by the teachers and administrators is demeaning to the staff and harmful to a sound discipline policy. Any rules established in a discipline policy should be enforceable, without hypocrisy, if the rules are to remain credible Is it reasonable to ask a teacher who smokes to be sincere in policing the smoking habits of students? Perhaps all educators should be asked to stop smoking. If this rule is to be applied to teachers then shouldn't this same prohibition ápply to parents? Their habits are also very visible to students. It can be argued that the evils of smoking should be included in the teaching curriculum. How effective can even the non-smoking teacher be in discouraging the use of tobacco when massive teaching campaigns are being waged by the tobacco industry extolling the pleasures of cigars, cigarettes and pipe tobáceo Wouldn't the instruction time be better utilized by teaching how to cope with the pressures of modern advertising? A concern has been expressed that an open smoking lounge will offer an enticement to the uninitiated. I wonder if a smoking room might not be a good deterrent. As a non-smoker I have found the odor in most smoking parlors enough to gag a goat.