Smoking teens 鈥榬isk being shot on street鈥
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French high schools say students should be allowed to smoke on school grounds so that they don鈥檛 become targets for extremists when they gather for cigarette breaks on the street outside.
A leading union of school administrators first made the request five days after the November 13 attacks in Paris that left 130 people dead and 350 wounded. Following a refusal by the health ministry, the SNPDEN union last week renewed its call for a loosening of the school smoking ban as long as France remains under a state of emergency.
Around one-third of French teens between the ages of 15 and 19 smoke, according to government statistics.
In its letter dated November 18, the SNPDEN union said: 鈥淒uring each recess, in more than 2,000 schools in France, dozens of youth or even hundreds at the largest establishments form static and compact groups in a predictable way for 15 to 20 minutes.鈥
The ministry鈥檚 rejection letter late last year included a reminder that France is currently trying to cut the number of smokers by 10 percent by 2019, and said 鈥淭he state of emergency changes nothing鈥 regarding anti-smoking laws.
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