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No Judgement | How to Talk to Teenagers About Vaping

  • Joan Frimmer
  • Feb 22, 2018
  • 1 min read

When addressing behavioral choices made by adolescents that might endanger them physically or emotionally, avoid starting the conversation with facts, judgment or punishment. Express genuine curiosity and be a good listener.

How to Talk To Teenagers About Vaping

The New York Times | Lisa Damour | February 14, 2008

E-cigarettes are only the latest entrant into the longstanding category of perils we might wish for our teenagers to avoid. Vaping — using an electronic cigarette to inhale vapor infused with flavor, nicotine, both or neither — holds promise as a path away from the harms of conventional cigarettes. But a report released last month by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine found evidence that vaping might prompt teenagers or young adults to try cigarettes, making it a route toward smoking for a generation of teenagers whose cigarette use is at a 40-year low.

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