i believe that any quality school should do everything it can do eradicate smoking all together. this includes constant patrolling of known smokers' areas- such as the back of the oval. classical music should be played in the toilets at all times to discourage students from hanging around in the toilets (don't laugh, this actually works) and Quit programs should be mandatory for any student caught smoking. Children need protection from harmful things, not designated areas.
i have been well known at my school to spend lunchtimes going into the girls' toilets and standing outside all the locked cubicles and asking to borrow a lighter, then suspending all the girls that open their doors to offer me their lighter (thinking that i'm another student), ciggie hanging out of their mouth.
I wasn't going to post in here but TBH, this post made me feel sick. Surely there are other ways to help your students, instead you are choosing the break the trust that students already lack for many teachers.

As someone has already posted, legal age to smoke is 16 and if there are offering support to help quit as well as helping to increase retention rates then good on them. You can only provide so much education in the end they are going to make the decision they want regardless of how much education you provide. And in the end, they are the ones that are going to suffer health wise and thats the concequence they have to accept for making the decision they did.

This is all i'm going to post in here...