Terrorism : the prohibition of smoking in schools maintained

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Published the 04.09.2017 à 18h20

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The cigarette breaks will not be allowed inside the schools. The risk of a terrorist attack related to the crowding in front of the establishments had already led the authorities to ask themselves the question of lifting the ban last year. At the end of summer 2017, the subject has again been put on the table, including heads of establishment who fear for the safety of their schools.

Earlier in the week, an interministerial meeting was held with the minister of Health, Agnes Buzyn, Interior minister, Gérard Collomb, and the minister of national Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer. It was a question of possibly relax the law to allow the freedom of choice to headteachers to choose. In 2016, a hundred secondary schools had already disobeyed the Evin law and the decree Bertrand sanctuarisent school tobacco-free.

“Not a question”

But quickly, the associations of tobacco control are mounted to the niche to denounce the sharp contradiction between efforts to reduce smoking among young people, and the return of cigarette breaks in the high schools. The question has been agitated for several days the government, torn between the arguments over health and safety. Finally, the prime minister has decided, The prohibition of smoking within the precincts of colleges and high schools will remain strictly applied.

“At A time when the government is going to initiate a campaign against smoking, and while the safety around schools has been strengthened in the framework of the new posture Vigipirate terrorist Attacks, there is no question of weakening the decree of 15 November 2006 which prohibits smoking inside facilities,” said the Prime minister’s office to the AFP.

In the morning, on Monday, Gérard Collomb, has expressed a view on this thorny question. “The better, he felt on Public Sénat, is not smoking too much. It is campaigns throughout the year, physicians are mobilizing “. And yet, “we need to try to avoid the crowds” ; by 2016, one in five students was a smoker. A solution could be to “strengthen the devices-bound” to block any vehicles that are launched at high speed “, he added.