FILE PHOTO: JOHN LEWISSchools are putting vaping detectors in bathrooms and students are ripping them down as New Zealand battles what the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation calls a teen vaping epidemic. Vaping (e-cigarettes) has hit secondary schools up and down the country. It reported that one in five secondary school students were vaping every day. You could blow $100,000 dollars on vape detectors without even blinking." Mark*, 17, who attended a secondary school in Christchurch, said students he knew who vaped had never smoked before.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 01, 2022 18:43 UTC