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This is the most terrible thing that more and more students in Serbia are doing during breaks: It's serious, listen!
High schools across Serbia are increasingly facing a huge problem - students smoking cigarettes in schoolyards during breaks, and often consuming increasingly popular electronic cigarettes within the educational institutions themselves, warns Milorad Antić, president of the Forum of Secondary Vocational Schools, for Telegraf.rs. As he further points out, it is also reprehensible that it increasingly happens that teachers and students 'enjoy' cigarettes together in hidden smoking areas within schools.
TL;DR
- Students in Serbian high schools are increasingly smoking cigarettes and e-cigarettes during school breaks and within school premises.
- Teachers are also observed smoking in the vicinity of students, including in designated smoking areas and sometimes even inside classrooms.
- Existing regulations are deemed insufficient, with a lack of strict enforcement and no defined mandatory distance for smoking areas away from schools.
- The problem is more pronounced in secondary schools compared to primary schools.
- Recommendations for improvement include implementing a zero-tolerance policy, establishing a 1km no-smoking zone around schools, and imposing strict financial penalties.
- The article also briefly touches upon the availability and affordability of drugs like ecstasy and marijuana to students near schools.