Deadly toxins in vaping warning

Health Minister Brad Hazzard and Minister for Education and Early Learning, Sarah Mitchell, have launched Get the Facts – Vaping Toolkit and NSW Health awareness campaign.
The campaign, which is aimed at secondary students, reminds parents, carers, young people and teachers vaping is not safe and can have harmful, long-term effects to the physical and brain development of young people.
Many schools are seeing an alarming increase in the number of young people vaping at school, with one Bankstown deputy principal urging parents to find out more and talk with their children about the hidden impacts of vapes.
She says the biggest misunderstanding about vapes is that they are harmless compared to cigarettes.
Minister Hazzard says that research has proven that e-cigarettes are just as addictive and harmful as regular cigarettes, while Minister Mitchell also urged parents to discuss the dangers of e-cigarettes with their children and to report any usage in schools to principals.
“The number of young people vaping without consideration to the effects is concerning. I encourage all parents and young people to find out more and talk about the hidden, dangerous impacts of e-cigarettes,” Ms Mitchell said.
“Educating our young people about the dangers of vaping is essential when there continues to be a large number of reckless individuals selling nicotine products to minors.”
The Vaping Toolkit and campaign is designed to increase young people’s awareness of the dangers of vaping and support parents, carers, families, schools and educators, health and community bodies with information and strategies to educate and protect young people from the harms of e-cigarettes.
Parents and young people can get the facts about the dangers of vaping by visiting health.nsw.gov.au