I can see where you are coming from Glamourcide - however I don't believe that schools should be seen to encourage addictions by providing permission to smoke. I think it's worrying on a number of levels - 1. Do parents have to give permission for their child (and until they leave year 12 I think they should be deemed a child regardless of if they are 18 or not) to be permitted to smoke at school? Are parents even aware that this is being allowed? 2. Is this going to encourage a pile of other kids to take up smoking for the novality - they are kids and they are, well, dumb at times (god knows I was). 3.Is it going to encourage kids who would have been just too scared to do it previously. 4. What message do we send when our tuckshops aren't allowed to sell 'unhealthy' foods yet we give kids permission to fill their lungs with all kinds of chemicals - seems pretty hypocritical.

For me - if this idea was adopted by schools, it should have to go hand in hand with compulsory quit programs - I mean, it's a proven fact that this stuff kills people - could you imagine the uproar if kids were being exposed to another harmful substance that could kill them while at school?