SUBJECT:  TOBACCO-FREE ENVIRONMENT  (#5640)

            The Board of Education and the Bargaining units, having given full consideration to the health hazards associated with tobacco use, as well as the need to provide healthy role models for the District's youth, have joined together to declare the Malone Central School District a smoke/tobacco-free District effective November 1, 1994.

            Smoking/tobacco use is prohibited within and on all District owned, rented, or leased buildings, property, and vehicles.  This prohibition applies to public, staff, and students, and extends to private vehicles when on school property.