school ban on smoking

Woah there, I might smell like a hippy but don't read too much into that comment. I'm not saying 'boycott tobacco and grow your own tofu'. I'm a smoker, I don't know how to grow tofu. Obviously under capitalism lots of stuff makes the bastards rich.

I still say don't promote smoking by making it the cause which is associated with radical politics at your school. I don't want to (and I hope I didn't) make any point in favour of lifestyle politics but some things we buy are genuinely useful and others are addictive health destroying substances that do nothing but make someone else rich at your expense. I see the logic of the arguments to the contrary but I still don't think organising around the right to smoke in schools is the best course of action for a fellow comrade who is eager to make the most of their organising energies. I got addicted to smoking at school, I regret that.

here Iexist, came across this when I was looking for books online, thought you might get something from it:
http://www.studentliberation.com/main-resistance.html

Yeah this is actually the point. If there is a strong and pissed off smoking contingent at your school, then presumably they'll flout the new rule and then get disciplined for it, which is when you can be useful, organising their mates to do things in support of them. Some ideas:

-an impromptu demo outside the headmaster's office while they're being bollocked

-walkout from classes

-a Spartacus-style thing where ALL the smokers collectively light up in the old place, challenging the school to discpline all of them (careful with this one though, might be hard to garner support from non-smokers. I'd probably hate all of them cos I'm an asthmatic. )

you must be so bored to claim to want to run a campaign so that some other kids can walk a little less far to have a smoke, and then find excuses to do nothing anyway.

Boredom, or wanting to get of his ass and start organizing and trying to start his theory into practice. Yes some of us can sit from our high horses of experience and knowledge of historic struggles and say oh you should not be organizing around this or that, but at least he wants to do something.