![]() ![]() So, just how worried should teachers be? Opinion, it seems, is divided on that. It doesn’t help that vapes are not-so-subtly marketed to appeal to children and young people, with their bright colours and appealing flavours - think banana, bubble gum, lychee - which are reminiscent of products found on the sweet shelves. “Adolescents are susceptible to peer influence, increasingly via social media, and this is a concern when emerging evidence suggests vaping has detrimental effects on the developing brain, lungs and heart,” said study co-author, Dr Gary Chan. The researchers estimated that a quarter of people in the videos appear to be under 18 and they say there is an “urgent need” for age restrictions on accessing such videos. Sarah’s observations are echoed by a study published last year from researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia, which found that 63 per cent of e-cigarette content on TikTok portrays vaping in a positive light. Why Year 1s are struggling with school - and how to help them.Exam anxiety: how to support your students, according to a psychologist.They see the people they aspire to be like doing it so they start vaping, too.” Influencers will be vaping in a TikTok video like they’re just having a drink. “It’s all over social media, particularly TikTok. “Socially, there has been a shift, where smoking is perceived as a dirty habit and vaping is seen as a desirable alternative,” she explains. It’s less common in the under 16s: 6.5 per cent of 11- to 15-year-olds have tried vaping while, for 16-17 year olds, that rises to 23.2 per cent, and for 18-year-olds, it’s just under a third.Īlthough Ash’s findings suggest that few children and young people vape to look “cool” (just 1.2 per cent of 11- to 18-year-olds cited this as a reason for e-cigarette use in the Ash survey), Sarah believes that social media is responsible for normalising and glamorising the activity - and that this is having an impact on pupils’ habits. In fact, the most recent figures from the UK charity Action on Smoking and Health (Ash) found that 11.2 per cent of 11- to 17-year-olds in the UK tried vaping in 2021. Sarah says that, at her school, the problem is most common in Years 10 and 11, but that it is affecting Year 8 and 9 pupils, too.Īnd it’s not only happening in her school. It is illegal for children under the age of 18 to purchase or use e-cigarettes but that doesn’t seem to stop younger pupils getting their hands on them. Our kids would never dare have a cigarette in the school toilets but they’ll vape because they know you can’t really smell it and you can’t really prove who it was,” she says. We suspect that it’s going on at every break time, every lunchtime, in every toilet. We have kids vaping here on a daily basis. “More and more, it’s becoming a massive issue in my school. Has vaping become the 2022 equivalent of sneaking a fag round the back of the bike sheds? Sarah*, an English teacher and behavioural leader at a secondary school in the North of England, certainly thinks so. ![]()
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