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Have you seen an uptake of students ducking off to the toilets for a quick vape? or sweet smelling vapour wafting in from the quad by the truanting students sitting under your classroom windows? The e-cigarette and vaping market has seen unprecedented growth over the last couple of years and their popularity continues to grow, especially in our youth and adolescents.

While people like to think that there may be some positives to consuming vapes over smoking cigarettes, there are many similar short and long term health effects that smoking and vaping has on the body, including cancer, addiction, anxiety, lung damage, fertility and heart issues.

This poster provides an easy to read outline of some of the most major impacts vapes and cigarettes have on the human body. It includes a definition of a vape (in case your students like to argue that their vape isn’t bad for them!) as well as a QR code to a cool, short, free YouTube video on ‘Smoking vs Vaping’ by the team from AsapScience whose aim is to make science make sense.

For our students to live long and happy lives, we need to help them understand the importance of looking after their bodies (including what they put into it), and minismising their intake of chemicals and nicotine through not vaping or smoking is one aspect we can help educate them on.