
How do kids get vapes?
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Vaping under the age of 21 is illegal: How do kids get vapes?
Although vaping under the age of 21 is illegal in the US and Idaho, Idaho youth still manage to acquire vape products. Many vapes are found via social media channels and are sold by adults. Often it is unclear what is contained in these “street vapes”.
Know Vape is a local public television program presented by IdahoPTV
Idaho Millennium Fund

How do kids get vapes?
Clip: Special | 3m 51sVideo has Closed Captions
Although vaping under the age of 21 is illegal in the US and Idaho, Idaho youth still manage to acquire vape products. Many vapes are found via social media channels and are sold by adults. Often it is unclear what is contained in these “street vapes”.
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With funding from tobacco settlement dollars, Idaho Public Television has launched KNOW VAPE, a statewide campaign to raise awareness about the dangers of youth vaping in Idaho. Check out our page for free resources to help quit, curriculum for educators, and a teen PSA video contest.I took money out of my dad's wallet to buy vape and I'm not a thief.
We would go to different gas stations and have searched through the ashtrays that they had.
Anything that we could smoke.
I would lie to my dad and say that I needed money for lunch.
When really I was just saving it to buy a vape.
I have physically fought somebody for a vape.
Vaping is a huge problem in the high school age student.
I ask them, “Where are you getting these things?” And they're pretty much reaching out to strangers on social media.
They call them their plugs.
They hit them up or contact them on social media.
Ask them for whatever they want.
And these adults are bringing our students these devices to smoke day in and day out.
I went on Snapchat, saw if there were any plugs that were selling vapes.
There was this one guy who his whole entire story was just posts of all these different boxes of different kinds of vapes and how they were super cheap and how he lived really close to where I lived.
I would wait until my dad was asleep.
I'd get a ride from a random person.
I would pay them to drive me and we'd go pick them up.
I'd spend like $100 on ten vapes and then I'd make a profit of $200.
I got a message from one of my friends asking if they could buy some weed and a couple of vapes off me at school.
So I went to school with about four grams of butt on me and over five vapes and I was sitting in class.
I got called down to the principal's office and there were two cops down there, but I just pulled out what I had and right there I got an intent to sell and a misdemeanor for possession of marijuana.
Vaping did lead to other substances that I put into my body.
Vaping led to smoking cigarettes when I couldn't get a vape.
Marijuana, and then that led me down to a whole bunch of other stuff.
Smoking weed then alcohol and then the harder substances.
Once I got the high, I felt like I really just had to keep it going.
In early 2009, 2006 we only saw nicotine in these devices.
But now, as these have adapted, other drugs have adapted with it.
Kids who I catch smoking marijuana typically started vaping e-cigarettes, and then they continued on to marijuana because it's just as easy to smoke THC out of a vape as it is nicotine.
It's the street vaping is a lot more dangerous than buying from an actual vape shop because people are making these chemicals in their homes and on they're selling them and you don't know what's in it.
These dealers, adults that are willing to sell it as children are just selling them whatever they can get their hands on to get their money.
Even here on campus, I have tested a device and it tested to have fentanyl inside of it.
We have people who are dying from these things because they smoke something that they don't know what it is and potentially have an overdose.
So we have actually heard of meth being vaped, heroin, MDMA, like Molly, Ecstasy.
We've heard rumors of people putting vitamin E acetate in them.
I've even heard of superglue being added to them.
If your kids are in a school situation they're going to be exposed to and offered a vape at some point.
We need to talk with our kids before they're faced with it.
We need to talk with them when they're young, so they're more likely to listen to us.
They’re, they're going to know about the dangers and they're going to know how to handle it when they're faced with this situation.
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