Vaping: a national crisis in our schools

In today’s briefing - the vaping problem in schools. Teachers and parents are extremely worried that school students are illegally dealing vapes... and that more and more students are taking it up. 

 

There are reports that increasingly younger students, even primary students, are taking it up.  Rudy and Maya, year 12 students give us their first-hand experience.  We’re also joined by Craig Petersen, President of NSW Secondary Principals' Council; and drug and alcohol educator Paul Dillon.

 

Students are vaping inside the classroom... and it's spreading from the city to country schools.  Australia has relatively strict vaping laws, many say too strict because they restrict access to people that could use nicotine vapes as a way of quitting smoking.   So what’s the answer here?  Are our laws too lenient, or are vapes the answer to reducing our reliance on nicotine…?

 

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