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District seeks to expand anti-vaping education, detection and diversion for high school students
Summary
A district presentation urged the board to endorse public anti-vaping messaging, expand diversion resources and continue using restroom vape detectors after staff described mounting youth nicotine use at the high school.
A staff presenter told the Unit 40 Board of Education on Sept. 15 that underage vaping is rising in the community and asked the board to endorse a public statement and allow the district to share anti-vaping education on its social media channels. "We are doing harm to our young people, and people are profiting from that," Mr. Roberts said as he described health and learning consequences tied to nicotine use among adolescents.
Roberts said 2024 CDC-derived research indicates roughly 1,200,000 high school students vape (about 7.8 percent) and that middle-school use is about 3.5 percent; he cited additional survey findings that 64 percent of current e-cigarette users said they want to quit and 67 percent tried to quit in the past…
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