Smoking
Smoking/Vaping
By School Board policy (UMASD policy 222), no student is permitted to smoke, use or possess tobacco/nicotine products in any school building, on school buses, other district-owned vehicles or on school property. For purposes of the policy, smoking is defined as any use and/or possession of tobacco/nicotine products including cigarettes, cigars, blunts, bidis, pipes, chewing tobacco, spit tobacco, snuff, electronic delivery devices, vapor products, dissolvables, and any other items containing nicotine or reasonably resembling tobacco or tobacco products. All such items will be confiscated.
Smoking, which includes possession of any tobacco/nicotine product (lit, unlit or smokeless) constitutes a Level Three misbehavior, and the first offense carries the penalty of a one-day in-school suspension from school.
When there is a reasonable suspicion of smoking, students will be subject to search. Smokers are encouraged to join self-help programs which are available by asking the nurse, a school counselor or principal.