Speaker 1: Now this is hard for me to understand because I
Speaker 1: am not a vapor myself. I am not a smoker.
Speaker 1: I've actually never I have tried a vape. That's a lie,
Speaker 1: but I've never smoked a cigarette. I have tried one
Speaker 1: vape ever because someone was like, it's blueberry raspberry pop
Speaker 1: and I was like, sounds delicious, so I tried it.
Speaker 1: There is a study that has come out Generation Vape,
Speaker 1: led by the Cancer Council, and it has found that
Speaker 1: more than two thirds of fourteen to seventeen year olds
Speaker 1: have used a vape knowing it contains nicotine. Wow. Now
Speaker 1: people are saying, teachers are saying, and a professor is
Speaker 1: saying that kids are becoming addicted to vaping. Kids in
Speaker 1: school they're turning up to their exams with nicotine patches
Speaker 1: because they are so addicted. They're going away to school
Speaker 1: camps with nicotine patches. Like don't forget to pack your pajamas,
Speaker 1: your runners, you're pillow, you're sleeping bag, You're nicotine patch
Speaker 1: for you school camper prolic so much is a study,
Speaker 1: So I mean it's not don't believe it.
Speaker 2: I just think like the bigger issue here as well
Speaker 2: as is that for so long, the way in which
Speaker 2: the vapes, the way they looked at, the way they
Speaker 2: were branded, the things that they were named, the flavors
Speaker 2: of them were so marketed to kids, Like, it's no
Speaker 2: surprise to me at all that kids are addicted to vaping.
Speaker 2: You know, there's so many rules and regulations around how
Speaker 2: small packets of smoking are able to be displayed, but
Speaker 2: vapes bloody everywhere.
Speaker 1: Okay, listen to this. This is gobsmacking. Quitline who we all?
Speaker 1: I mean, I have family members that have used Quitline before.
Speaker 1: It's the line they've been helping people quit smoking for
Speaker 1: thirty years. The call up, yes exactly. They have said
Speaker 1: that they are now getting callers for vaping as young
Speaker 1: as twelve years old. Quitline is getting twelve year olds
Speaker 1: call up because they're addicted to vaping.
Speaker 2: But also, I reckon kids would have no idea how
Speaker 2: addictive it is, and then it's once too far gone
Speaker 2: that they don't know how to stop and they realize
Speaker 2: it's probably a problem. Or even if they're realizing it's
Speaker 2: a problem, who knows.
Speaker 1: Nowt on it.
Speaker 3: But at that age, you don't know me you can
Speaker 3: get them anywhere.
Speaker 1: But it is actually illegal for I think it's under eighteen.
Speaker 1: So how are twelve thirteen fourteen year olds getting by that?
Speaker 3: One actually needs to build into the sale of these things.
Speaker 3: They're everywhere and they market them. You're so right. They
Speaker 3: look so easy to get and suasibly displayed. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: also even I'm confused. Do some have nicotines, some don't,
Speaker 3: some do some flavors that I don't get it.
Speaker 1: Sorry, guys, I just made a mistake and I need
Speaker 1: to actually correct that.
Speaker 3: I've just looked it up.
Speaker 4: Ease.
Speaker 1: Cigarettes containing nicotine are only legal available with a prescription
Speaker 1: under the current laws. Wow, so how are they getting?
Speaker 3: George is called on thirteen one oh sixty five. You're
Speaker 3: a school teacher, are you?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, I am, now.
Speaker 3: Hi Georgie. What's your take?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Oh, it's horrific, Like pretty much every every kid
Speaker 4: in every school. And I'd like to say, and maybe
Speaker 4: not every but at least eighty percent of students at
Speaker 4: most schools bakee realistically.
Speaker 1: And they vakee at school. So like, are they just
Speaker 1: walking around in their recess with the like music bar
Speaker 1: and abape?
Speaker 4: No, it's not like that. They're pretty discreete because it
Speaker 4: is like an instant suspension. It's more just like in
Speaker 4: bath rooms and us as teachers, like, we can't really
Speaker 4: go in the bathroom, so it's a bit of a
Speaker 4: gray area like that.
Speaker 2: It's almost like, I mean, far worse health consequences, But
Speaker 2: it's almost like where mobile phones came in schools and
Speaker 2: teachers didn't know how to stop kids from bringing them in,
Speaker 2: how they would have you know, rules and what were
Speaker 2: the implications of it. And now we've got vaping, which
Speaker 2: is a whole other thing that teachers have to try
Speaker 2: and police when they should just be trying to teach
Speaker 2: a kid.
Speaker 3: Well, mind, were ugi O cards? Well, I couldn't bring
Speaker 3: yugi oh or Pokemon cards.
Speaker 1: Into mine was a tamagotchi. Yeah, Like, we come from
Speaker 1: very different worlds, But what do you think we do
Speaker 1: about it?
Speaker 3: George?
Speaker 1: Like, so, if you see a kid vaping on school,
Speaker 1: it's an instant suspension. What if you suspect, like, I mean,
Speaker 1: let's be real, you can smell it. They all smell
Speaker 1: like some sort of bubblegum or some sort of dessert.
Speaker 1: What do you do if you're like, I know you're
Speaker 1: doing that. Are you allowed to search their.
Speaker 4: Bags or realistically we aren't as teachers, but we can
Speaker 4: pass that on to higher up an executive even they
Speaker 4: have the ability to do that. So yeah, it's really
Speaker 4: just like a quick offload because yeah, we don't have
Speaker 4: that capability on. Unfortunately, it'd be great too, because yeah,
Speaker 4: they walk in smelling pretty fruity, and it's like only
Speaker 4: leading to one being realistically, do you know, like.
Speaker 1: Do you hear whispers around the playground about how they're
Speaker 1: accessing these knowing that you're supposed to have a prescription
Speaker 1: and it's illegal. Where are they getting them?
Speaker 4: Yeah? H they get them from each other, and I'm
Speaker 4: sure they get them from I guess stores that just
Speaker 4: sell underage and are just looking for money. But like,
Speaker 4: funny you say that, I've got a good story like
Speaker 4: about vaping of when I caught a lot of apes.
Speaker 4: So working at a previous school I worked in, we
Speaker 4: were under the suspicion that they were vaping the bathrooms
Speaker 4: and we knew that they were.
Speaker 3: So after.
Speaker 4: They all went back after lunch, we went into the
Speaker 4: bathrooms and we researching. We couldn't find and we're thinking
Speaker 4: where we know they're doing it in here? They don't
Speaker 4: have them on them where are they? And we ended
Speaker 4: up lifting up like the top of the toilet and
Speaker 4: there was about thirty eights in about massive sandwich bag.
Speaker 4: And because like this in which bags are waterproof, there
Speaker 4: air lay's sealed in their air tight, they were just
Speaker 4: it was just a communal.
Speaker 1: Vape like yes, like an el chapper, like in the
Speaker 1: cistern of the toilet like that. How do you did
Speaker 1: you have to be to have toilet water vape?
Speaker 4: But it's it's air tight because it's in my sandwich bag.
Speaker 3: So I don't Jordge, is it true that they are
Speaker 3: like there? You had to install smoke sensors in the school.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, that's correct. We have to install vape sensors
Speaker 4: in the school.
Speaker 1: Oh they're specific vape sensors, not smoke sensors.
Speaker 4: No, they're vape sensors so they can pick up like
Speaker 4: the vapor and then yeah, it just sets an arm
Speaker 4: off as security.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's insane.
Speaker 2: That is crazy.
Speaker 1: Imagine that we have to do that now.
Speaker 3: Totally, it's nuts. It's like that's there you go, Georgia,
Speaker 3: thank you Mane. I mean it's so interesting, isn't that crazy?
Speaker 3: Epidemic