YES - Ceri Davies, director of programme development, YMCA England
The YMCA would not question for a minute that smoking is bad for you.
We believe that all youth workers have a responsibility to educate young people about the health, social and financial disadvantages of smoking.
Our youth workers do this whenever the opportunity presents itself.
Policies on smoking on the premises vary from centre to centre across the country. Each YMCA decides whether a smoking ban is appropriate for them, and to what level. However, the most relevant factor to consider is that some of the young people we work with are living and coping with a variety of different issues and problems, of which smoking may not be the most important.
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