Edutopia – Holly Korbey
“Liz Burrows’s official job title is tobacco control coordinator at the health department in Oldham County, Kentucky, but these days she doesn’t spend much time worrying about tobacco: It’s all about vaping. “A high school girl told me recently that it’s ‘really easy’ to vape in class, and that it doesn’t belong to any one clique—kids in every group are doing it,” said Burrows of the schools she visits in the Louisville suburbs to give talks. “We worked so hard to reduce the smoking rate, and now it’s going back up.” Marketed as an alternative to help adults quit smoking tobacco, vaping—or inhaling vapor from an electronic cigarette—has skyrocketed among teens and tweens across the nation.” (more)