Lippert notes that while his study finds schools to be breeding grounds for teenagevaping, it isn't fair to think of them as absolute failures in controlling e-cigarette use. "Rather, schools can be very effective at getting the message out thate-cigaretteuse is a serious risk to teen heal...
Jeffery Tanner (Phoenix, AZ)Director of SEL at Leona Schools After seeing their new prevention curriculum, every administrator in our county was all-in. I’ve never seen them agree on anything so quickly! Jason Bertrand (Laona, WI)Middle & High School Principal From our first phone call...
Jeffery Tanner (Phoenix, AZ)Director of SEL at Leona Schools After seeing their new prevention curriculum, every administrator in our county was all-in. I’ve never seen them agree on anything so quickly! Jason Bertrand (Laona, WI)Middle & High School Principal From our first phone call...
Wash. Schools have been wrestling with how to balance discipline with treatment in their response to the soaring numbers of vaping students. Using e-cigarettes, often called vaping, has now overtaken smoking traditional cigarettes in popularity among students, says the Centers...
Schools are an ideal setting for the delivery of these programs, where they can be delivered en masse, integrated into existing alcohol and other drug programs and aligned with school curricula. Skills‐based school prevention programs have demonstrated significant and sustained reductions in...
The curriculum was delivered by classroom teachers in most cases; however, at two schools (7 classes), public health unit staff assigned to the participating schools delivered the lessons. CMB lessons were originally designed for elementary schools, where class periods are 30–40 min; however, ...
Borrelli, and her team have worked extensively with high schoolers to learn their views on current quit-vaping programs and how to design engaging and effective new programs. The team is using its data to develop a state-of-the-art virtual reality intervention to be ad...
“It’s a province-wide concern but also a worldwide concern,” said BC Lung Foundation’s Vice President of Health Programs and Initiatives Dr. Menn Biagtan. “There is a very rapid increase in the number of high school students vaping.” ...
[31]. Clinicians can advocate for policies that restrict where vaping products are sold (e.g., banning sales near schools), restrict sales to youth, restrict vaping indoors or in public places, ban advertising, require warning labels on packaging, and ban flavors that are attractive to youth ...
“I think this is just like the tobacco industry 30 years ago when they had smoking cessation programs that came into our schools,” Coleman-Lawley said. “The government needs to be providing that information up front so kids can make an informed choice, rather than just going with the cro...