Tag: vaping
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Reasons to reconsider vaping
By Robert Pedowitz, DO When a patient asks if vaping is safer than smoking, I tell them that neither is safe, potentially pose health risks, and that both habits should be broken. While vapes—also called vapor cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes—have been marketed as a safer alternative to smoking traditional cigarettes, there hasn’t been enough…
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Howell school board amends smoking policy to account for new products
HOWELL – The Howell K-8 School District Board of Education has amended a policy regarding students who smoke in school. According to the policy, “smoking” means “the burning of, inhaling from, exhaling the smoke from, or the possession of a lighted cigar, cigarette, pipe, or any other matter or substance which contains tobacco or any…
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Jackson school board reviews substance abuse statistics
JACKSON – There were no reported incidents involving students with alcohol or prescription drugs from January through June 2018 in the Jackson School District. During a Board of Education meeting on Aug. 28, Ray Milewski, the district’s director of security, presented the annual report detailing incidents of serious student misconduct in the areas of harassment,…
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Woodbridge school officials considering instituting random drug testing policy
WOODBRIDGE — Administrators in the Woodbridge Township School District are considering the implementation of a policy that would subject students to random testing for alcohol and drug use. “We have a drug problem in our schools,” Superintendent of Schools Robert Zega said during a June 25 meeting that was held to discuss the proposed policy.…
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Survey of students at four high school finds almost 21 percent report vaping
A survey of high school students in Princeton found that nearly 21 percent of them said they vape and that most do so with nicotine, a substitute for regular smoking that one expert said on April 30 is a “gateway” to using tobacco products. The Corner House Student Board, a group of students from the…
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HILLSBOROUGH: District officials establish strict consequences for ‘vaping’ at school
The beginning of a new year also marks the start of stricter punishments for students who bring electronic cigarettes, commonly known as “vapes” or “vape pens,” onto school property within the Hillsborough Township Public School District. Recent changes to the district’s substance abuse policy and the Student Code of Conduct for Hillsborough High School, Hillsborough…