Our Kids Deserve A Vaping-Free Future - Honolulu Civil Beat
Our Kids Deserve A Vaping-Free Future
No parent or teacher can single-handedly fight the millions of dollars the tobacco industry is spending to hook young people.
About the Author
Cynthia Honma lives in Keaau. She works at Ken’s Towing Service, which has long supported community programs to prevent drug and alcohol addiction among young people.
One in three public high schoolers in Hawaii have used e-cigarettes at least once in the past 30 days. That shocking statistic comes from the 2019 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, a biennial survey that regularly monitors the health risk behaviors of public, non-charter school students statewide. The results of the study — which was conducted by the state Departments of Health and Education and the University of Hawaii Manoa and included over 12,000 students in grades 9 through 12 — were released last month.