To mediate and prevent children from smoking, parents need to avoid smoking at all or at least not do it in front of their children. Parental smoking has been shown to be the common factor leading to pupils smoking.
There seems to be no end in sight to the education crisis in SASouth Africa if the recent release of the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2021 report is anything to go by.
The availability of trains will hopefully reduce the rate of road fatalities, which involve schoolchildren. The prohibition on drinking and gambling will also lower the rate of crime in trains, especially with the visible security that is part of the new setup.