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Desert Mountain junior helps prompt Scottsdale to add vapes to smokefree ordinance
Summary
Desert Mountain High School junior Sid Gupta organized student and community outreach and worked with public-health groups to draft ordinance language; Scottsdale City Council voted unanimously 7-0 in September to amend the citys smokefree code to include vaping products.
Desert Mountain High School junior Sid Gupta said he began working with Scottsdale officials after seeing widespread vaping among students on campus and identifying a gap in the citys smokefree rules that did not explicitly cover e-cigarettes. Gupta said he contacted school leaders and, through a district introduction, met city council members and public-health organizations to craft changes to local code.
Gupta described partnering with policy experts from the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association and the American Lung…
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