<p>Sevendad, great comment! When I was at SPS in the late seventies, boys really did have antique spittoons in their rooms (not provided by the school, however!)</p>
<p>I have a child struggling with a chewing tobacco addiction begun at St. Andrew’s. I didn’t know about this until he graduated. It is not cool in every sense of the word and so immediately dangerous in terms of young people in their twenties getting throat, mouth, lip, tongue cancers. </p>
<p>St. Andrew’s is the most drug and alcohol free school I have ever seen, but kids will find a way to do something they see as daring, especially if they don’t feel they risk expulsion. I do feel the schools need to treat dip as they do other drugs, and be alert to the signs. I have talked with dorm faculty at Kent and SPS, and they seem quite aware of boys using soda cans as spittoons, but generally overlook the practice as long as some effort is made to keep it hidden.</p>