Oklahoma parents and medical professionals concerned about underaged vaping – FOX23 News

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. — Parents, colleges, and even medical professionals mentioned they’re seeing extra and extra children vaping. Parents mentioned a number of the college students are in elementary college.

A father or mother who commented on FOX23′s Facebook web page mentioned her daughter walked into a toilet at college and noticed children vaping and supplied her daughter to vape.

Oliver Middle School Nurse Dorlyn Waits is encouraging parents to be looking out.

“It can look like a thumb drive. It can look like a regular pen. It can look like normal things you’d have around your desk,” she mentioned.

Last month, FOX23 informed you about “You Suck Vapes” house owners encouraging vape stores to stop selling to minors.

“We’ve seen the increase under 18 as well because vape shops have allowed it to happen,” the house owners mentioned. “It’s getting so bad that we get one or two a day that come in here and we have to say ‘no, I’m sorry.’ They’ll say, ‘Well okay, I’ll just go down the street.’”

With extra teenagers vaping, Waits began a cease vaping marketing campaign in 2020, which now occurs each February. The college obtained posters and different instructional sources to show children the myths and truths about vaping.

Dr. Weyman Lam, an allergy physician at St. Francis, mentioned as teenagers’ our bodies and minds are nonetheless growing, they’re placing themselves prone to growing temper and studying problems.

“Cognitive impairment that can occur, an increase in depression and mood disorders and obviously increase risk of nicotine dependence too,” Lam mentioned.

Since vaping will not be FDA regulated, Lam mentioned there are a lot of different attainable well being dangers left unknown.

“The flavorings, you know, we don’t know what that can cause. The things you inhale, they may be carcinogens  that can occur that maybe we don’t know about yet; and there’s also EVALI, that’s Vaping Associated Lung Injury that can cause permanent lung damage and even death in certain cases,” he mentioned.

The authorized age to buy vapes is 21. For sources on the best way to give up vaping, teenagers and parents can go to mylifemyquit.com for gums and patches. The web site additionally affords free remedy.

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