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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Allow kids to go outside to vape.[/quote]

LOL!  I am a senior citizen and my brother is almost a decade older.  We were talking the other day and he mentioned that there was an "approved" smoking area outside his high school.  (This was before cancer warnings.)  It was not allowed when I was in high school, but the bathrooms were definitely full of smoke.  
Teachers did monitor the bathrooms in those days, though.[/quote]

YEP my North Shore suburban Chicago high school, which was and still is one of the best high schools in the state (27 average ACT) had a smoking lounge. It really wasn't a lounge but a fenced off area adjacent to the east side of the building.  An activist lawyer in town sued the school district claiming that not having a place to smoke violated the civil rights of students.  The school district caved and set up the smoking area. There was of course far more than just tobacco being smoked in the lounge.  It was not a place to idly walk by as students who did not smoke were often harassed or bullied. The lounge was en route to your assigned car in Drivers Ed (a well off school district) so for some it was difficult to avoid trouble..   I can see where a nice kid could be harassed in today's vape bathrooms.  (I know I am old but I was assigned a light green Olds Cutlass to learn how to drive; I could have cared less about the smokers or the harassment because driving that car - and no it was not a 442 as we fantasized - was a sweet deal for a 16 year old).

Ironically the school district reversed itself in the 90's when sued by a parent lawyer in town that the smoking lounge negatively impacted student health.  The school district immediately settled the claim by tearing down the smoking lounge. I don't think all of the kids smoking just as all of the kids vaping today are bad kids.  These are addictive substances. Not at all good for your health and today's THC based products can be addictive and can lead to serious psychosis.  But heck, having to smoke so badly being outside at 10 below 15 miles south of the Wisconsin line was a lousy use of scant free time and an exercise in misery.

The smoking lounge was not a personal space.  Bathrooms are and should be a place of safety.  Solutions are difficult without significant enforcement action, and no I am not referring to police or the criminal justice system. [/quote]

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