A teaching association is supporting plans to ban teachers from smoking cigarettes. A motion calling for new teachers to be required to be non-smokers was backed by delegates at the Professional Association of Teachers' annual conference. A teacher from East Yorkshire, Wesley Paxton, said teachers should provide a good example for pupils. He told the Cheltenham conference that teachers who smoked were not in a position to discourage children from taking up the habit.
Most surveys show that most smokers want to give it up.
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