Keeping an eye peeled for students smoking cigarettes in school buildings is largely a thing of the past, but now school officials are struggling with a newer but scarcely less dangerous trend — vaping. Vaping, or “smoking” electronic cigarettes powered by nicotine, has surpassed every other tobacco product in popularity among high schoolers, according to 2016 reports from the Connecticut Department of Health. McMorran has sent emails to parents to warn them that vaping devices are easily concealed and are mostly odor-free, although some flavored options produce a fruity smell. Vaping devices vary in size and shape, but they typically incorporate metal or plastic tubes that convert liquid nicotine into inhalable vapor. A report by two Ridgefield High School students who worked this summer as interns for Town Hall suggested that the state mandate the addition of information on e-cigarettes to school health curricula, which already contains information on alcohol and marijuana. “The combination of e-cigarettes’ ease of use as well as the school faculty’s unfamiliarity with the product has led to an all time high in substance abuse on school property,” the report said. Staffers in Bethel include vaping in their general efforts to educate students and parents about substance abuse, including it as a topic during the high school’s freshman forum and in a guide on substance abuse distributed to parents, Troetti said.
Danbury-area School Officials Alarmed By Increase In Vaping
By Anna Quinn, The News-Times
Sat, 08/05/2017 - 9:36pm
Sections: u.s.
Topics: Connecticut Fairfield County Danbury
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