Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 10 (UPI) -- Like many U.S. high school students, the youth at a Kentucky high school get an anti-smoking message, but they also take classes on growing tobacco. Oldham County High School is one of at least 14 Kentucky high schools that offers its agricultural education students classes on growing tobacco, the Courier-Journal reported Monday. Advertisement Anti-smoking advocates say that's part of a mixed message in some Kentucky schools, most of which ban student smoking, deliver anti-tobacco lessons in health class and offer cessation programs for students who smoke. But school officials defend the policy. "We do anything and everything we can do to try to keep the kids from smoking," said Shannon White, principal of Montgomery County High School, one of the schools with a tobacco growing class. "But I don't perceive teaching them how to grow it as encouraging them to use it necessarily," he said. Smoking is "an adult decision -- that's what we try to teach the kids."
