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It appears vaping is a big concern in some high schools in the province.
Two grade 12 students from Leo Hayes High School recently did a survey of students and a video to find out if there are many youth who are taking up the habit, and who are vaping where they’re not supposed to.
Emily Davis and Emma McLuskey say youth vaping is a bigger problem that some may think.
McLuskey says as an end of the year Journalism project they decided to find out how prevalent it really is, “We see it as a big problem. We see it happening all of the time and we don’t always see a lot being done about it. It is not only happening outside the building, it is happening inside as well. So we just wanted to see how big the problem really is.”
Almost 100 per cent of the students they surveyed said they had seen other students vaping on school property.
Davis says they also wondered where the students are getting the vaping products, “We got to go into a Vape Shop that we knew didn’t ID people. We bought a Vape and there was no sign at the time, and we didn’t get ID’ed. That showed just how easy it was to purchase vaping products.”
She says the problem is there isn’t a lot that can be done, “The unfortunate thing about it is, they can’t do anything, unless they catch you red handed. Unless they see you vaping on school property, they can’t do anything. If they see you have a vape, it’s not like they can suspend you for possession of it.”
Vaping on school property appears to be a problem in other schools as well. In Moncton, Harrison Trimble High School closed some of its boys washrooms for one day this week, in an effort to clamp down on vaping.
A email sent home to parents from Trimble stated this was a result of approximately 40 to 50 students continuously vaping in the washrooms.
The washrooms are expected to be reopened tomorrow.
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