Teens dealing vaping products on TikTok, Instagram
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Seventeen-year-old Peta was introduced to e-cigarettes by her older brother over summer and now vapes most days.
“Most of my friends vape,” said Peta, who declined to use her last name. “People my age feel as though it won’t affect them because it’s not tobacco.
Vaping is becoming more common among young people, Health Department figures show.
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“It’s become an issue at my school that the younger year levels are hanging out in the bathrooms vaping together.”
Teens dealing vaping products on TikTok, Instagram
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While Cult Icon took top honours in Pompano Park s Open Handicap Pace for mares on Tuesday night (Jan. 12), most of the scuttlebutt came in the very next race as stablemates Happy Heart and Glenferrie Blade A dead-heated in their event with two Hall of Fame drivers both with over 10,000 career wins in their respective sulkies.
Happy Heart, handled by Wally Hennessey, and Glenferrie Blade A, with David Miller in her sulky, hit the wire with no separation. Both mares are trained by Melissa Beckwith, with Happy Heart owned by Thomas McTygue and Glenferrie Blade A owned by Mark Beckwith.
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Twist And Twirl won seven races including the Great Northern Oaks and NZ Sires Stakes 3YO Championship, took a record of 1:56 and earned $283,258 and was a top racemare in her own right. She ranks as a sister to the NSW Group winner Feels Like Magic 1:51 ($261,728) and a half-sister to the Blossom Lady winner Bettor Give It 1:57.4 ($138,061), dam of this year’s SA Derby and NSW Breeders Challenge winner Mach Dan 1:51.7 ($204,892).
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