There has been a new initiative for the schools in the Copenhagen area. In particular, a school has put a lot of effort into smoking and became known as the first school that is completely smoke-free during school hours. The school has chosen to focus on smoking because they have felt that more of the students tend to smoke in each quarters, which they think takes attention away from school and hours, and only creates more smokers among the students.

What does smoking-free school time offerings contain?

In the package as a non-smoking school, you will find offers for employees who want to quit smoking, help in developing smoking policies that suit the individual school and teaching to the younger classes so that they become aware of what it means to be smoking before they begin . By incorporating the package on school day, the school receives a certificate that they can use in their future profiling so parents can choose them if they want their children not to end up as smokers. However, it requires a part of the school if they are to remain a non-smoking school. Here, they must ensure daily that no students smoke on their grounds that no new students start smoking and actively promote that the pupils themselves do not want to smoke.

Part of a non-smoking school is teaching to the young people where they are taught in what symptoms and side effects there are in smoking. Here, many schools have examples of in the hours, such as black lungs and the cost of cigarettes, which should help deter and educate students about how bad it is to smoke. All schools are also approved as non-smoking schools because they carefully monitor whether school smoking is in school. Capturing students in smoking will contact the parents immediately and the school has thus maintained the ban on smoking.

Rules for smoking in public institutions

Since 2007, the court has decided that smoking in doors in public institutions, including schools and other facilities, is not allowed. However, these rules can be relaxed slightly if a smoking room or other extractor is installed that is designed for a designated room or relative to a single individual. It is also forbidden to smoke in areas close to schools or institutions to avoid the impact of young people.

Rules for e-cigarettes in public institutions

If you use E-cigarettes , there is also no turning point. The steam-powered cigarettes are equally prohibited at schools and institutions like the regular cigarettes. The advantage of the E-cigarette is that many companies or larger companies have different attitudes to the steam tells the labor inspectorate . So, if there is consensus and not in favor of others in the company, there are some who are allowed to smoke at the offices.