No Judgement | How to Talk to Teenagers About Vaping
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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