Smoking and Tobacco - FY14

1. Smoking and the use of
Tobacco
Walton County Public Schools
2013/2014

2. Did You Know
• Tobacco use is the number one
preventable cause of premature death in
the state of Georgia, and number three in
the Nation.

3. Statistics
• Currently, 23% of adult Georgians smoke.
• 9% of middle school students and 19% of
high school students smoke cigarettes.
• In addition 5% of middle school and 7% of
high school students use smokeless
tobacco.

4. Beware
• Smokeless tobacco is a significant health
risk and is not a safe substitute for
smoking cigarettes. Smokeless tobacco
itself contains 28 cancer causing agents
and teens who use it are more likely to
become cigarette smokers.

5. Our Policy
• Smoking and the use of tobacco products shall
be prohibited at any time in any school or
building or property owned or leased by the
school district, excluding designated areas at
organized school activities, or at any time in any
school owned vehicle, including school buses.
• Practice Fields are school property.
• Supervisors who look the other way while
employees violate this rule will be held as
accountable as that person who is breaking the
rule.

6. Our Policy
• In addition, smoking or the use of other tobacco
products by employees is prohibited at any time
such employees are directly instructing or
supervising students.
• This means field trips, overnight camps and
competitions.
• Direct supervision includes coaching, band,
directing, acting as a sponsor or advisor of a
club or similar school organization and other
instructional roles.

7. Our Policy
• Employees shall not store or possess
tobacco or tobacco related products on
their person or in their belongings in such
a manner that such products are visible to
students.
• Be Responsible.

8. Our Policy
Consequences
• School district employees who violate this
policy may be subject to appropriate
disciplinary action, including reprimand,
suspension with or without pay, or
termination.
• Students who violate this policy may be
subject to disciplinary action in
accordance with the student conduct code
and the student/parent handbook.