The State Duma said that the installation of smokers in schools contradicts the purpose of the institutions Natalia Ionova) on the installation of smoking rooms for children in schools. In their opinion, such initiatives contradict the purpose of educational institutions.
Earlier, the artist said that her daughter was kicked out of school precisely because she smoked, and noted that she understands the inconveniences the child faces at school. Glucose noted that teachers do not provide children with any alternatives.
The first deputy chairman of the State Duma's Education Committee Yana Lantratova said that the school exists to instill good habits in children without encouraging bad ones. According to her, an educational institution is responsible for adolescents from the moment they cross its threshold, so teachers have every right to restrict them in some way. “Smoking is harmful to human health, and the idea that it needs to be legalized in an educational institution contradicts the very purpose of the school,” the politician summed up.
Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Health Protection Committee Alexei Kurinny, in turn, stressed that smokers in school should not be in principle, since their installation would become negative examples for students. In addition, he believes that children should not be able to smoke on the territory of the educational institution.
In the summer it became known that the State Duma wanted to introduce a bill allowing the creation of separate smoking rooms on the territory of hotels. The author of the bill was Sergey Krivonosov, Deputy Chairman of the Duma Committee for Physical Culture, Sports, Tourism and Youth Affairs.