The Editor,
As school returns and the dry weather continues, I think the schools should rethink their no-smoking policy and create designated areas for students to smoke, which they once did.
As it stands now, students are forced to find other places to smoke, which can be in front of neighbouring homes, in bus shelters and, frighteningly, in the woods.
Three schools come to mind in regards to the woods: Dr. Charles Best secondary, where students go into Mundy Park to smoke, plus Pinetree secondary and Douglas College, where the students go into the woods of Hoy Creek to puff.
Seems to me that this is a disaster waiting to happen, and not allowing students to smoke on school property is not going to stop them from lighting up.
Mark Farrell, Coquitlam
