That won’t change a great deal if the under 21’s are determined to use tobacco. It’s so much easier these days to use tobacco than a decade or two ago. the E-Cig comes in many different forms. 6th and 7th grade school kids will at times use an e-cig right in the classroom and remain undetected because the vapor dissipates so quickly.
Look up one of the most popular brands called Juul.
It comes in all kinds of ‘flavors’ and aromas.
There doesn’t have to be a big blue cloud of curling ‘smoke’ if you don’t want to produce one. Between e-cigs and cell phones everywhere you look, I don’t see how teachers deal with it. Maybe they just don’t react to it anymore. Student’s have always loved sneaking some forbidden activity right under their teacher’s noses.
Use of illicit drugs in the last month including marijuana are now over 25% in self reporting by high school seniors. Compare that with 10% who may have vaped, 3.5% who smoke cigarettes daily and 7% who have used tobacco in a hookah in the past month.
How effective would this new program be? Let’s compare to alcohol use in the last month - 17% of high school seniors self reported that use, with over 10% binge drinking in the last two weeks. This is after 3 decades of a 21 year old drinking law uniform across the land.
Why the focus on vape products? Simple math really - half of all cigarette sales goes into government hands in most states. Much of those funds must be spent on anti-tobacco efforts. Illicit drug use is by far the most prevalent problem, yet 75% of all efforts in schools this year will be anti-tobacco in some form or another.
Our focus is utterly lost. Then again, medication assisted drug treatment (MAD) is skyrocketing among 18-21’s, hooking them on methadone for a lifelong daily treatment for their months long heroin addiction.