1 February 2007: Smokers Caged

A school in Belgium is allowing pupils aged over 16 to smoke on the premises ... but only if they stand in a cage and wear a badge displaying an X-ray image of tobacco-damaged lungs.

A school spokesman said: "By wearing the badge, students are admitting it is by their own free will they are damaging their health. If this doesn't reduce the number of youngsters taking up the habit, I don't know what will."