In my opinion, there's not a specific type of kid that vapes.

I think it spans from rich poor to athlete to honor roll.

We are seeing children as young as seven or eight years old that are vaping.

If you don't think your kid is vaping, think again.

40% of all kids in Idaho have at least tried it once.

Kids are able to hide it much easier than a traditional cigarette.

Right?

They smell different.

There are a lot smaller.

They're a lot easier to conceal.

Some of the ways a kid vapes at school are making secret pockets in my backpack, even in my pocket, and put my phone over it so that I just looks like I have my phone.

In the toilet paper dispenser.

In my bra.

In my sleeves or my socks or my belt line.

So if they search me with the metal detector, it beeps over my belt.

Kids are vaping everywhere.

They are vaping in school.

They're vaping at home.

They are vaping in front of adults.

You know, vapes are designed to look like office products.

They look like sharpies, they look like pens, they look like flash drives.

The thing with the pod devices and disposables is like super easy to hide.

There's drawstrings, watches, pens, keychains, lipstick, and because of the way they're designed, they can literally be used anywhere without being detected.

Some places I would hide, I would hide it in my skateboard.

Just put it right there.

Blanket, I stuff it in here.

Inside my guitar, put it under my mattress or under my carpet under this one or only the flat sheet.

But I usually keep under my pillow, mostly because that's the easiest place I can go.

When I wake up, I usually take a hit.

Middle of the night, I usually take a hit as well.

The best way to keep your kids away from vaping is to talk to them.

So we actually do have studies that show us that talking to your kids works.

Kids who regularly have to check in with their parents about their free time are half as likely to try tobacco products.

Those are great numbers.

So I actually often get asked by parents, you know, how do I talk to my kids?

You remain calm.

You know, you don't be alarmed about it and you look for opportunities to talk with them.

Ask a simple question like, “I hear that a lot of kids are vaping at school.

Is that something that you're seeing?” And that kind of opens up the lines of communication and if you're not confrontational with them and if they're not feeling I'm like, this is a lecture, then they're open to telling you what their day to day life is like.

And you can kind of see what they're faced with.