We are a boarding school, and we went 100% smoke-free a while back - maybe
eight years or so. We gave plenty of lead time, I think 18 months, and
offered current employees chances to enroll in stop-smoking programs. I
don't think anyone quit, and I don't think anyone fled to their cars (at my
old school, we did have a Latin teacher who "drove off campus" twice a day).
Once we declared that this is how it will be, we value you and support you
as workers and as people, but it is in the best interest of the school
(especially the students) that we no longer permit smoking anywhere on
campus, people pretty well went along with it.
Take care,
Bill Ivey
Stoneleigh-Burnham School
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