Anti-Smoking Dress Code May Be Official

Although students in Simi Valley have long been forbidden to wear clothes advertising cigarettes or tobacco products, the school board will vote tonight whether to make that policy official in the district handbook.

The Simi Valley Unified School District is smoke-free, said Assistant Supt. Kathryn Scroggin, author of the dress code proposal. And allowing children to show up in Camel T-shirts, for instance, would “indicate agreement that the district supported the kids’ use of tobacco products,” she said.