The answers to these questions are in the YAPA fact sheet Smoking: Law & policy for NSW youth services.
Test your knowledge by answering the questions yourself before you read the fact sheet.
3. If a shop keeper sells cigarettes to an underage person, who is breaking the law: the shopkeeper, the young person or both?
4. Can police confiscate cigarettes from someone that they suspect is underage?
5. You are running a camp and decide to permit young people to smoke in a certain area. Do you need parent's permission?
6. A group of 15 year olds are smoking outside of your centre. Do you have a legal responsibility to tell them to stop?
7. If you do not have rules or policies about smoking, can youth workers confiscate cigarettes?
8. Do youth workers have a legal duty of care to stop people from smoking inside?
9. You are driving a group of young people home. You are all smokers and all want to smoke. Are you legally allowed to smoke in the car?
10. Do you have a legal duty of care to make sure that young people do not see you smoke?
The answers to these questions are in the YAPA fact sheet Smoking: Law & policy for NSW youth services.
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Working with Young People with Alcohol or Other Drug Issues: A self-paced learning package Published: 2006 Funded by NSW Drug & Alcohol Workforce Development Council. Written & compiled by Kristy Delaney, YAPA, and Matt Stubbs & John Howard, Ted Noffs Institute. Additional material by Nick Manning, YAPA, & by Shopfront Youth Legal Centre. Opinions are the author's.
