Vaping
Vaping Lesson Plans
The Exchange has developed these lessons with Drug Science to equip teachers to talk about vaping in the classroom. All of these are freely accessible and we encourage teachers to use these to enable a classroom debate on whether the UK government should ban disposable vapes.
Lesson 1 – The History of Tobacco
This lesson provides the historical context for a meaningful conversation around the harms of smoked tobacco and how to reduce them. It sets vaping in its therapeutic context as a tool to reduce the harms of smoking.
The History of Tobacco - Slides
Lesson 2 – Nicotine and Vaping
In this lesson, pupils will learn more about vaping, initially as a tool to reduce harm for smokers. The harms of vaping will be assessed by looking at current scientific research and interviews with experts.
Lesson 3 – Debate: Should the government ban the sale of disposable vapes?
This lesson allows the children to engage with all sorts of perspectives on the issue of disposable vapes by examining both sides of the debate using evidence to support either side. This lesson should end in a debate amongst the students.
Vaping Guidance
SmokeFree Gloucestershire - Vaping and e-cigarettes
Developed by SmokeFree Sheffield in collaboration with Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), GHLL and One Gloucestershire have joined forces to share these useful posters and leaflets with you to help facilitate conversations in class around vaping and e-cigarettes.
Poster: Vaping and e-cigarettes - The facts - poster 1
Poster: Vaping and e-cigarettes - The facts - poster 2
Leaflet: The facts for parents and carers
Whole School Approach to Reducing Vaping - training delivered by GHLL's Lead Teachers.
GHLL Lead Teachers have hosted a training session centred around reducing vaping.
Please log in to the review tool to take a look at the slides.
Vapes and E-Cigarettes
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Data on vaping in children and young people in Gloucestershire is available here
- Vaping - is it a risk-free option? - BBC News
Department of Helath - Creating a smokefree generation and tackling youth vaping
The Prime Minister has set out plans to build a better and brighter future for our children. This includes the introduction of a new law to stop children who turn 14 this year or younger from ever legally being sold cigarettes and a further crackdown on youth vaping.
Key measures have been announced by the Department of Health on how this will be achieved.
The full publication can be found here.
Vaping – KS3 form time activities
In these 3 form time sessions, students learn about social pressures around vaping, its impact, and the effects of nicotine on the adolescent brain:
Vaping: What and why?
Vaping: The impact
Vaping: Nicotine
Includes a "Guidance for teaching about vaping" document to support one-to-one conversations with young people.
Download the activities
Teenage Vaping: What's the Harm?
Rachel Burden investigates the youth vaping phenomenon and asks if we should be worried about young people getting addicted. Watch on BBC One at 20:00 (22:40 in Wales) on Monday 4 September - and afterwards on BBC iPlayer (UK only)
Watch on BBC One at 20:00 (22:40 in Wales) on Monday 4 September - and afterwards on BBC iPlayer (UK only)
Vapes are electronic devices designed to allow people to inhale nicotine in a vapour. Using a vape is known as vaping. Vapes are also available without nicotine.
Also called:
- e-cigarettes
- e-cigs
- e-hookah
- e-liquids
- puff bars
- vape pens
- vape pods
- vape sticks
Quick info
How the drug works varies from person to person
- How you might feel
- Dizzy, headache, nauseous or mildly stimulated, relaxed.
- Read more about how it feels
- Effects on your body
- Increased blood pressure and heart rate, faster breathing.
- Read more about how it feels
- How long it takes to work
- Effects peak 5 - 10 minutes after your first puff.
- Read more about how long it takes to work
- How long the effects last
- The effects last two to three hours after your last puff.
- Read more about how long the effects last
- Common risks
- Nicotine makes the heart beat much faster. This can make you feel nauseous/sick the first time you use it. Nicotine is addictive and can be hard to stop using once you’ve started. Vaping is a lot less harmful than smoking but it doesn’t mean it’s harmless.
- Read more about the risks
Vaping & Cannabis Edibles
Click here to read the latest information on vapes from 'Talk to Frank'
Click here to read about the risks of taking cannabis edibles.
Key vaping information
The effects vaping has on the brain
Is it ok to vape underage?
Healthy You Fact Sheets
Smoking – Time’s Up
Vaping – Do you know?
Trading Standards
Trading Standards can respond to reports regarding the sale of illegal vapes and under-age sales in a number of ways, ranging from disrupting sales by seizure of illegal product to prosecution of sellers where they continue despite advice and warnings from our officers.
Information about shops selling to young people, or generally selling illegal vapes, can be submitted to Trading Standards art tradingstadarads@gloucestershire.gov.uk
Be assured Trading Standards will never reveal the source of any report without permission.
News
A 12-year-old girl who suffered a lung collapse and spent four days in an induced coma has told the BBC that children should never start vaping.
Read the full article using the link below.
Never start vaping, says 12-year-old girl with lung damage - BBC News
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