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[madowlspeaks]

Does anyone know of a good way to effectively stamp out smkoing in the workplace?


The students at my school (a university) are out of control! They are smoking in the hallways, making ashtrays out of cleaning pans and are basically destroying the school! There are cigarette stains everywhere! On the floors and on the walls....
They are taking over the break areas where the benches are and turing everything into an ugly mess!
The whole place stinks and even I stink when I leave work. My lungs and throat hurt. It's like working in a bar! The hallways get so smokey that it is hard to breathe! Talk about workplace hazards !!!!!!!


The students ignore the signs on the walls that say no smoking (in Korean). When approached, they laugh and walk away while still puffing as they retreat into the boys room. They just don't care!
A couple of times, I have confiscated cigarettes and thrown them away in front of the students to set an example. This has resulted in loss of face and a student pelting me with a lighter. Nothing is working!!!
The only thing that really ends up happening is that I look like the bad guy.

This sucks cause I want to the the teacher that they like and respect but I am becoming the **beep** wayggok who yells about smkoing.

Oh what to do!

[teachingld2004]

There is absolutely no way that you are going to stamp out smoking. Just accept it. The only thing you can do is change jobs.

BUT, no way should you have ignored it when one of the students threw a lighter at you.

If this student is in any of your classes, I would advise you to make his life miserable.

Already it is a week later now, but if u know who this student is, please report him.

[yingwenlaoshi]

There's only one thing you can do:

[twg]

[Hollywoodaction]

This is not a matter of free-will or them being adults.

It's illegal to smoke in public buildings in Korea, including university buildings since all universities, including privately owned ones, receive public funding. Just tell your students to put out their cigarettes and go smoking outside. What can they do? You have the authority to do so.

I started to tell the students to stop smoking in the halls and in the washrooms whenever I saw one doing so when the law that makes it illegal was passed. I see fewer students smoking in the hall each semester. People generally start smoking because of peer pressure, so I like to think I've made a difference by making it so that students wouldn't feel the pressure to start smoking just to fit in with their friends who do so in between classes.