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Children, including pre-schoolers, are vaping in Australia’s playgrounds and classrooms
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Researchers in Australia have found that about a third of students in high schools have used vapes, or e-cigarettes, even though usage is illegal for those under the age of 18 and nicotine-based vapes require prescriptions.
PHOTO: REUTERS
SYDNEY – Through the toilet windows in schools in Sydney, vapours waft out periodically.
Even in classrooms and at playgrounds, students – as young as five years old – are using e-cigarettes openly.
