Across the country, how to stop vaping in schools is becoming a major conversation. To stand up against the teen vaping epidemic, there are eight things that schools should do: Create an effective vaping policy: A clear and concise vape-free policy is the first step to addressing the problem...
After vaping and alcohol, the most common thing teens use is marijuana, the survey found. About 1 in 4 students said they'd used marijuana at least once in the past year. It was more common in older kids - about 1 in 17 high school seniors said they use marijuana every da...
He said the results raise concerns that rates would be much higher if the survey had been conducted entirely in schools. “As kids return to school, we face the real risk of a resurgence of the youth e-cigarette epidemic unless the FDA quickly eliminates all flavored e-cigarettes,” Myers ...
School-age vaping: epidemic or fad? Vaping by middle and high school students has now declined 61.5 percent since its 2019 peak. Past-30 day vaping by students in grades 6-12 was at just 7.7 percent in 2023—down from 20.0 percent in 2019, when claims that vaping had “hooked a ...
Have you or someone you know ever felt the urge to try vaping after seeing it on social media or in other media outlets? How do you think young people can play a more proactive role in combating the vaping epidemic in schools? Do you have any groups in your school that do ...
Before 2021 the NYTS was administered in person at participating schools. However, that year, due to the COVID-19 epidemic, the survey was administered entirely online; 51% of students completed it in school and 49% at home or some other place [7]. Following the CDC, we defined current...
The results are in a pair of studies published Tuesday, including one that details previously released figures indicating that the surge in underage use of e-cigarettes shows no signs of slowing down. An estimated 28% of high school students and 11% of middle school students said they'd used...
In the United States, young people, in particular, have started vaping in droves, leading the surgeon general to declare youth vaping an epidemic in 2018. An outbreak of a mysterious lung injury linked to e-cigarette use (particularly in people who use THC) has also captured the attention ...
A glimpse of student athletes in peak physical condition vaping just moments after a competing in a football game led Stamford High School Principal Raymond Manka to reconsider his approach to the epidemic. Hisschooltraditionally has emphasized discipline for those caught withe-cigarettes. Punishments be...
JUUL and the teenage “vaping epidemic” The opponents of vapor products had long beaten the drum of “child-appealing” flavors. In fact, the accusation that flavors (other than tobacco) were especially attractive to youth had been with vaping almost since the beginning, well before Lorillard ...