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    VAPING

    Tips for talking with your kids about

    Know the facts. Learn about e-cigarettes and young people


    before you start the conversation with your child.
    • E-cigarettes are known by many different names. They are
    sometimes called e-cigs, e-hookahs, mods, vape pens, vapes,
    tank systems, and electronic nicotine delivery systems.
    • Most vaping devices contain and deliver nicotine. Nicotine
    can harm a teenager’s developing brain and lead to addiction.
    • Simply talking with your teen about these products can help
    protect them.

    Be patient and ready to listen. There is no “perfect talk.” Ask what your child thinks.
    Your goal is to have a conversation, not Consider your talks with your child Show some genuine curiosity. Ask your
    to deliver a lecture. So avoid criticism about vaping as a learning opportunity child, “What’s your take on vaping?” or
    and encourage an open dialogue. for both of you, and perhaps just the “Do you know kids who use e-cigarettes?”
    beginning of an ongoing dialogue. You
    There is no “perfect time” to talk. Be open and honest.
    may have some facts about vaping at
    Driving in the car together or waiting at Be truthful about what you know about
    hand, but concede that you don’t
    an appointment is often the best time. the dangers of vaping, and what you
    know all the answers. It will go a long
    You can start by mentioning a news don’t. You can honestly say, though,
    way to keep your kids from going on
    story, a TV show, or something that you “Vaping isn’t harmless. I hope you can
    the defensive.
    heard about vaping. Or ask your child steer clear of it.”
    what he or she thinks about a situation
    you witness together such as
    seeing someone use an
    e-cigarette, passing a vape
    shop when you are out,
    or seeing an e-cigarette
    advertisement.

    You can’t always control everything your children do when they’re not with you. Talking
    with your kids about vaping will let them know that you’re concerned about their health.
    Excerpted from Talk with Your Teen About E-cigarettes: A Tip Sheet for Parents from E-Cigarette Use Among Youth and Young Adults:
    A Report of the Surgeon General and other content taken from How to Talk to Your Kids about Vaping, New York Times, February 2, 2018.

    @GetTheVapeFacts
    TEACHERS AND PARENTS:
    That USB Stick Might Be an E-cigarette

    E-cigarettes are the


    most commonly used
    tobacco product among
    U.S. middle and high
    school students.

    Some e-cigarettes don’t look like


    tobacco products, so some kids use
    them unnoticed in schools, including
    in classrooms and bathrooms.

    An increasingly
    popular e-cigarette,
    called JUUL, is JUUL delivers a high dose of
    shaped like a USB nicotine. Nicotine is highly
    flash drive. addictive and can harm
    adolescent brain development.

    TOBACCO PRODUCT
    USE IN ANY FORM,
    INCLUDING
    E-CIGARETTES, IS
    UNSAFE FOR YOUTH.

    LEARN MORE about the risks of e-cigarettes for


    youth and access tips for talking to youth at:
    https://e-cigarettes.surgeongeneral.gov/resources.html

    @GetTheVapeFacts
    Different products. Same dangers.

    [
    [ ADDICTION

    [
    [ NICOTINE

    [
    [ CANCER-CAUSING
    CHEMICALS

    GET THE FACTS

    Nicotine can harm


    It’s not water vapor— your brain, If you vape,
    Some vape pods have aerosol from vaping including your you are 4 times
    as much nicotine as has cancer-causing memory and more likely to
    20 cigarettes. chemicals. ability to learn. smoke cigarettes.

    @GetTheVapeFacts
    https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/e-cigarettes.html

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