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Committee updates tobacco policy draft to include e‑cigarettes and clarify medical‑use exceptions
Summary
The committee reviewed a consolidated tobacco products policy (Policy 323) that adds electronic nicotine delivery systems and references the Medical Marijuana Act; members asked staff to separate student and employee language and to exempt medically prescribed inhalers from the ban.
Haverford Township School District’s Policy Committee on May 15 reviewed a proposed consolidated tobacco products policy that modernizes older language to include electronic cigarettes, vaping products and branded devices while also flagging where the Medical Marijuana Act intersects with school rules.
Committee members said the draft updates were timely — the existing text dated to the 1990s — but asked staff to cleanly separate student provisions from employee provisions and to add explicit language exempting prescribed inhalers and similar medical devices.
Justin, staff member, said the PSBA model policy recently updated its recommended language and that the…
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