86 Georgia School Districts Have Adopted 100% Tobacco-Free Schools
 
As of Aug. 12, 2012, Haralson County Schools (Rome Health District) joined the growing list of school districts in Georgia that have adopted the 100% Tobacco-Free Schools model policy. The addition of the Haralson County Schools brings the total number of Georgia youth protected from dangers of exposure to secondhand smoke to 1,165,865.

 
This graph shows the cumulative number of model policies adopted by school districts in Georgia.
All school districts are eligible to receive signage and technical assistance in educating the students, staff and community that the policy has been adopted in preparation for the current and upcoming school year. The addition of Haralson County Schools means that 86 out of the states 181 school districts are tobacco-free.  Eliminating exposure to secondhand smoke in 86 school districts is a major milestone.

A tobacco-free school policy means a tobacco-free environment that prohibits tobacco use on school property, including buildings, grounds, parking lots and athletic fields; in school-owned or leased vehicles; and at school-sponsored events, on and off school property. The policy applies to students, staff and
visitors and is in effect 24 hours a day.  

Haralson County Schools have been added to the following list of school districts that have exhibited leadership in eliminating exposure to secondhand smoke and reducing teen tobacco use in Georgia: (not in order of policy adoption)
1. Liberty County Schools
2. Marietta City Schools
3. Muscogee County Schools
4. Hancock County Schools
5. Douglas County Schools
6. Charlton County Schools
7. McDuffie County Schools
8. Effingham County Schools
9. Worth County Schools
10. Glynn County Schools
11. Carroll County Schools
12. Lamar County Schools
13. Meriwether County Schools
14. Atlanta City Schools
15. City of Decatur Schools
16. Clayton County Schools
17. Bleckley County Schools
18. Gwinnett County Schools  
19. Washington County Schools
20. Laurens County Schools
21. Clay County Schools
22. Brantley County Schools
23. Long County Schools
24. Troup County Schools
25. Cobb County Schools
26. Trion City Schools
27. Dougherty County Schools
28. Valdosta City Schools
29. Griffin-Spaulding Schools
30. Richmond County Schools
31. Taylor County Schools
32. Columbia County Schools
33. DeKalb County Schools
34. Rome City Schools
35. Fulton County Schools
36. Floyd County Schools
37. Baldwin County Schools
38. Wayne County Schools
39. Jefferson County Schools
40. Rockdale County Schools
41. Wheeler County Schools
42. Calhoun City Schools
43. Ware County Schools
44. Dublin City Schools
45. Hart County Schools
46. Dawson County Schools
47. Chattooga County Schools
48. McIntosh County Schools
49. Franklin County Schools
50. Miller County Schools
51. Thomaston-Upson Schools
52. Treutlen County Schools
53. Putnam County Schools
54. Monroe County Schools
55. Schley County Schools
56. Butts County Schools
57. Gainesville City Schools
58. Fayette County Schools
59. Bulloch County Schools
60. Carrollton City Schools
61. Crawford County Schools
62. Evans County Schools
63. Dooly County Schools
64. Lincoln County Schools
65. Pike County Schools
66. Tattnall County Schools
67. Wilkinson County Schools
68. Gordon County Schools
69. Polk County Schools
70. Dodge County Schools
71. Elbert County Schools
72. Chatham County Schools
73. Dalton Public Schools
74. Walker County Schools
75. Bibb County Schools
76. Paulding County Schools
77. Bartow County Schools
78. Warren County Schools
79. Bryan County Schools
80. Henry County Schools
81. Taliaferro County Schools
82. Cartersville City Schools
83. Catoosa County Schools
84. Quitman County Schools
85. Newton County Schools
86. Haralson County Schools
 
-Story by DPH Communications

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