I preluded my remarks with the fact that I am an ex smoker and have NO good things to say about smoking and I asked, "What is the impetus for you're trying to make this a legal, school issue?"
The answer was essentially, "Well, we think it looks bad and sends a bad signal to students)
(BTW .. I am a board member to two grammar, one middle and one high school)
I said I thought it was stupid and a violation of freedom to ban something because it looked bad.
I was told 'we' haven't decided yet ... (but I think I can see it will become part of the student handbook next year)
Parents divorcing, cheating on spouses, drugs
Why not hold parents accountable to what looks bad for children as opposed to a simulator.
“It looks bad” actually makes sense
IF
you have the leftist/humanist mindset that
“people are basically good and it’s their environment that determines their behaviors and choices”.
If you have something that “looks bad”, ie something in the environment that looks like a bad behavior choice, especially if it is being enjoyed by someone, then that will make “basically good” people/kids make that bad behavior choice.
Conversely, they were POSITIVELY STUNED that when they used tax dollars to put more fruits and veggies in “food deserts” that the “basically good people totally affected by their environment” didn’t choose to buy and eat more fruits and veggies.