Some schools testing for tobacco use

MSNBC ^ | 7 Oct 2002 | Associated Press

[sparkydragon]

Urine tests can detect tobacco byproduct for up to 10 days

ASSOCIATED PRESS

VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala., Oct. 7 — Breath mints won’t cut it anymore for students who have been smoking in the bathroom — some schools around the country are administering urine tests to teenagers to find out whether they have been using tobacco.

OPPONENTS say such testing violates students’ rights and can keep them out of the extracurricular activities they need to stay on track. But some advocates say smoking in the boys’ room is a ticket to more serious drug use.

“Some addicted drug users look back to cigarettes as the start of it all,” said Jeff McAlpin, director of marketing for EDPM, a Birmingham drug-testing company.

Short of catching them in the act, school officials previously had no way of proving students had been smoking.

Testing students for drugs has spread in recent years and was given a boost in June when the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed random testing of those in extracurricular activities. Tobacco can easily be added to the usual battery of tests.

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[DWSUWF]

"...“Some addicted drug users look back to cigarettes as the start of it all,” said Jeff McAlpin, director of marketing for EDPM, a Birmingham drug-testing company..."

Camel Madness

[RWG]

Some addicted drug users look back to cigarettes as the start of it all...actually it is mother's milk. Almost all addicts started out with using mother's milk.

[riley1992]

But some advocates say smoking in the boys’ room is a ticket to more serious drug use.

Unreal. If that were the truth, I would have been strung out on drugs for years now.

[hoosierham]

Bullshit !

It is all about conditioning the kids to accept the dictates of the State ; even your own body is property of the State.

[redbaiter]

Realizing they've been lied to is what leads kids to take drugs. (That and and the built-in human desire to alter our own consciousness.) When a twelve-year-old realizes that no, smoking a joint does not turn you into a crazed killer, he or whe is going to wonder what else they've been told is a lie. Kids may not be mature or necessarily moral, but they are smart. Tell them the truth about drugs and you & they will be just fine.

[sparkydragon]

The Fourth Amendment no longer exists in schools.

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"Freedom is not the natural state of man, merely the perfect one."

[sparkydragon]

And what happens if an 18 year old is caught with tobacco in his system?

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"Freedom is not the natural state of man, merely the perfect one.