Local health officials warn about a worrying increase in adolescent vapeo and young people so addicted to high -power nicotine that cigarettes are resorting to cigarettes as a vaporization device.
The numbers obtained by CBC News show more than 300 cases in which the administrators of the Public and Catholic High School called the law agents due to adolescents who vape in school property, and 245 warnings issued to students to vaporize or share vapes with their friends.
But that is just the tip of the iceberg and hardly shows the scale of the problem, said Brandon Tingley, who directs the application of tobacco in the Middlesex-London health unit, supervising the officers who enter and talk to the students and put positions under the free act of the smoke of Ontario, as well as a handful of young people entering in sessions that try to buy and vaporize the products for smoke flows.
“My soul hurts to say that we have talked to some students who use tobacco as a cessation for vaping because there is less nicotine in a cigarette or a package of cigarettes than in that vile substance they are using in electronic cigarettes. It is very scary to think,” Tingley said.
“Students are marketed in a way that find it easy to obtain, use and distribute them. It is a battle in all angles. Without a doubt, the consumption of tobacco and cannabis still prevails, but the number 1 complaint we receive from schools is related to vapeo.”
National figures show that approximately one third of high school students have tried to vapor, and almost a vape quarter every day. That is especially worrying because the high nicotine content in many vapes, agreed Linda Stabo, programs manager of the health unit of health systems associations.
“There is a wrong perception that these products are safe, so we have been counteracting some of those messages for years,” he said. “But the vapeo knows well, cigarettes do not. With a vapeo device, it is an explosion of fresh air that hits the back of its throat along with a high kick of nicotine that sets fire to your brain, so they want to continue vaping, and need to continue vaping. It is an addiction.”
Some students complain that they cannot go to the bathroom in their high school without having to cross mass clouds of steam, and school administrators say it is very difficult to catch students in the ACT. Some schools have removed the bathroom doors to discourage vopeo.
“If an educator enters a room, the student does not need to decide: ‘Am I going to burn my hand? What am I going to do with this cigarette?’ Tingley said.
Health defenders say that the province should do more to help reduce youth vapeo rates and prevent young people from trying the products. CBC Michael Gorman.
A school at the School Board of the District of the Thames of the Valley has had a vape detector since last year: the Collegiate Institute of the Strathroy district. Board officials say they cannot pay more detectors, and their effectiveness is still in the air. A spokesman for the Catholic School Board of the district of London said that the detectors would be piloted in several secondary schools this fall, but refused to say how many or where.
Adolescents trapped with a vape to the mouth or exhaling a large vapor snack of a fine of $ 305. “If they pass the vape, it is a fine of $ 490,” Tingley added.
But nothing works as well as talking directly to young people, Tingley said, and parents should start talking with their children early about vapeo damage.
The health medical officer of the region described the increase in the “tragic” teenage vapeo.
“Once again, we are dealing with an industry that has significant resources available to ensure that they are capturing new customers with a highly addictive substance,” said Dr. Alex Summers.
“The impacts on the health of addiction and dependence on nicotine are still little understood and probably more significant than we think. Creating a chemical dependence on a brain that is still trying to discover its path in the world will have a negative impact on mental health, anxiety and other problems in the future.”
‘It’s not a benign substance’
Health officials have previously addressed and reduced smoking rates among young people, and are using the same techniques to address smoking, Stabo said.
“We have young people who will always be young and want to try new things. They want to experiment, take advantage of what seems to be great online, and they want to try it themselves,” he said. “We need the general public to understand that vapeo is not a benign substance.”
“We really need to analyze this problem through a really complex intervention approach, where we have the application, education, awareness construction and we must discover ways in which we can regulate the product to reduce health damage,” said Stabo.
While there are limits in the amount of nicotine and the flavors available in stores, some ask for vapo online and others go to stores that do not meet the regulations, he added.
“They can connect online, they are not asked their age, or they are just filling a box in which it can lie, and those products are being delivered directly to its doors,” Stabo said.
Parents should know what to look for, because many vapeo products do not seem like a “medication management device,” he added.
They seem USB or as lip brightness. “They are designed to be discreet.”
