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Committee narrows nicotine exemptions, forwards tobacco- and vaping-policy changes to full board
Summary
The policy committee amended definitions in proposed updates to policies 43-20, 50-26 and 72-50 to exempt physician-prescribed smoking-cessation products and voted to forward the amended policies to the full board for consideration in March.
Committee members amended district policy language that had been proposed through the North Carolina School Boards Association model updates to clarify which nicotine- and tobacco-related products are covered and to exempt medically prescribed cessation aids.
Mister David Perry told the committee he was concerned the proposed language had "really conflated the words tobacco product into a whole gamut of things that don't…
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