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Numerous surveys have indicated that implementing tobacco-free policies reduces students exposure to secondhand smoke on campuses. However, in Fall of 2006 an online survey of 4,160 students from 10 different colleges found that most second hand smoke was experienced by students in restaurants/bars (65%), at home (55%) and in a car (38%), suggesting that on campus bans may be less effective.
They are increasingly available (e.g. European drug prevention quality standards; [14] Canadian Standards for School-based Youth Substance Abuse Prevention), [15] and typically advocate for evidence-based programming, sound planning, and design, comprehensive activity, monitoring, evaluation, professional development, and sustainability ...
The law in Hong Kong requires that all schools, universities, post secondary colleges, technical colleges, and technical institutes, industrial training centres or skill centres, colleges for higher educations are classified as non-smoking areas, which are strictly prohibited by law, enforcements and penalties.
The share of high school students who have used illicit drugs, alcohol, cigarettes and even marijuana has fallen substantially since 2001 — right around the time D.A.R.E. fell out of popularity.
See the list of every CMS school with reported drug incidents and how the district compares to others in North Carolina. With easy access, drugs in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools at a 10-year high ...
The current campaign, managed by Florida's Department of Health, uses only the information that has been found to be less effective in reducing teen smoking. On page 75, Rosenberg describes research by RTI International showing that only two beliefs actually correlate with lower teen smoking: 1) cigarette companies lie, and 2) cigarette ...
DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools, by Max Felker-Kantor, The University of North Carolina Press, 288 pages, $27.95 The post DARE Didn't Make Kids 'Say No' to Drugs.
The Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Advisory Committee, authorized by the No Child Left Behind Act, was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings. The Committee was established to provide advice to the Secretary on Federal, state, and local programs designated to create safe and drug-free schools, and on issues ...