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Youth vaping epidemic: Is it too late to halt the damage being done?

By Sarah Catherall
New Zealand Listener·
13 mins to read

This story was published on May 27, 2023 and resurfaced as the Patrick Gower on Vaping documentary was released on Tuesday night.

If you put the vapes confiscated from intermediate schools in a single region in a pile, Megan Rangiuia imagines they would make a small mountain. The principal of Ilminster Intermediate in Tairāwhiti Gisborne pulls out a photograph of the vapes she confiscated off pupils at her school of 300. In any other setting, the plastic, colourful tubes might

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