Martinha Gusmao – Teachers are being told not to put their students' health at risk by smoking in classrooms.

Member of Commission F (for education, health, culture, veterans' and gender equality affairs) Eladio Faculto said while the government was unable to check up on whether teachers lit up in class, the educators should show some self-discipline.

Faculto said while he believed smoking could sometimes help people think, teachers should smoke only outside school. He called for the Ministry of Education to take action against teachers who smoked during class.

Lospalos Central Primary School teacher Alberto da Costa said no teachers at his institution lit up during class. "I don't know; maybe that happens at other schools but not at my school," he said.

Education Minister Bendito Freitas said laws prohibited teachers from smoking in class.

Source: http://www.thediliweekly.com/en/news/news/12700-teachers-urged-to-butt-out-in-classrooms