On Friday and Saturday nights, or during a 'Sunday Funday' of drinking, this student says he'll go through a Juul or two.
Erin Richards, Justin Murphy and Max CohenBraden Brown, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, knows the risks of using e-cigarettes and abstains during the week.
School, health and government officials also say they're struggling to turn young people away from vaping and e-cigarettes at the same time that marketing campaigns present the products as safer than regular cigarettes. "These products were designed to appeal to teens and to go undetected by adults," she said. "According to the Surgeon General, there's no safe level of exposure to nicotine."Vaping-related illnesses and deaths continue to rise
"Current efforts by the vaping industry, government agencies, and schools have thus far proved insufficient to stop the rapid spread of nicotine vaping among adolescents," the report said. Some districts are designing new forms of discipline to deal with the rise in offenders — many of whom are first-time users drawn to the products because, well, everyone is doing it.
Surveys in the district of about 3,500 students showed almost half of students had vaped at least once and 10% were chronic/potentially addicted.
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