They will be on you like flies on shit because everybody knows that smokin' ain't allowed in school:
"Schools try different methods to stem students’ vaping habits" by Beth Teitell Globe Staff December 06, 2018
Ha ha ha.
Plymouth’s superintendent of schools, Gary Maestas, allowed himself a short laugh. He was thinking about the real-time vape detectors he’s planning to install in the town’s high school bathrooms, and how the students don’t yet know. “They’ll find out soon enough,” Maestas said, but the kids — they’re not the ones Maestas is laughing at.
Ha ha ha.
The children are the ones he’s trying to protect — from a multibillion-dollar vaping and e-cigarette industry that has lured millions of teenagers with sexy branding and child-friendly flavors, and along the way turned school bathrooms into ground zero of the vaping wars.
The hyperbole and framing of the issue with self-internalized war terminology that are meant to provide a mental charge and imagery (ground zero flames) is simply their way of blowing more smoke up our asses; however, it is instructive insofar as it illuminates where they intend to go.
Last fall, school systems across Massachusetts sent dire warnings home to parents who had never even heard of vaping, even as their children were puffing away. That outreach did not extinguish the behavior. This fall, a growing number of towns are taking the fight directly to the girls and boys rooms, and installing sensors, or considering doing so, despite tight budgets and equipment that can cost as much as $995 per unit.
Let me sit on that and ruminate for about 10-15 minutes, 'kay?
(Blog editor then closes stall door)
Derek Peterson, founder and CEO of Soter Technologies, the firm that makes the Fly Sense detection devices being used by Massachusetts schools, said he gets calls twice a week from crying parents.
It's not the deadly nicotine that bothers them so much as the somewhat medicinal THC.
Fly Sense uses hard-wired sensors that detect chemicals from vaping and send alerts to school officials in real time. They can hustle to the bathroom and try to catch the kid mid-puff, or review security footage from outside the bathroom, if it exists, to see who might have gone in or out.
I think you better hold it until you get home, kids, whatever the internal problems that will later result.
If worst comes to worst, you can shit your pants on the way home.
The product, which has no cameras or microphones, was originally created to detect changes in sound levels that may indicate bullying. “But that is an afterthought now,” Peterson said. “Vaping has overtaken everything.”
That means they are listening!!!
You do know that the "pooh-pooh" sound is also very close to the sound made by an inhaling vapor, right?
Hearing the approaching footsteps will at least help you drop your load, 'eh?
Hundreds of school districts in 21 states and Canada have purchased Fly Sense detectors, Peterson said. His website features a live meter that counts 7,842 incidents detected since Sept. 1, “and counting!”
In Plymouth, Maestas knows that even a sensor in every bathroom wouldn’t stop kids from vaping.
Then again, it might. Then they will just say fuck school and got smoke in the woods, huh?
That education is the more powerful tool, but there has already been plenty of that — warnings from the surgeon general and anti-drug abuse educators and from nearly every adult a kid knows.
Yeah, the kids may be vaping but they are still smart enough to recognize endless Henny Penny hyperbole and lies coming from authority (inhale, cough).
The FDA has announced a crackdown on vape retailers and a possible ban on flavored e-liquid, and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s office is investigating Juul Labs and other online e-cigarette companies to determine if they are in violation of state laws and regulations by failing to prevent minors from purchasing their products. The AG has sent cease-and-desist letters to two companies, ordering the retailers to stop selling Juul and other electronic smoking products in Massachusetts without an adequate age-verification system.
Juul has committed to spending $30 million on education and youth vaping prevention efforts and says it has implemented an “action plan” to combat underage usage, but the cat-and-mouse game goes on.
Becau$e $$$$ is at $take, and it is like the never-ending drug wars along with the millions the boo$e indu$try puts into responsible drinking promos.
Georgetown Middle/High School installed 10 bathroom sensors earlier this year, at a cost of about $7,500, and an additional 10 will be installed once funding comes through, according to Pamela Lundquist, chair of GeorgetownCARES, a substance abuse prevention coalition.
Ju$t wondering how the kids' school is. Got enough books and supplies and stuff? Not falling apart, right?
I don't know what $7500 can buy them, but I suppose it would at least feed a bunch of 'em.
So, do they work? That’s an interesting question. Although the sensors were installed in September, they’re still being fine-tuned, but since the small white boxes were attached to the bathroom ceilings, student reports of bathroom vaping have dropped. “We think they’re acting as a deterrent,” said Maria Lysen, an assistant principal.
You won't even know they are there, and you can contemplate their existence (Alexa) while on the throne.
Are you sure there isn't a camera in the thing?
In Natick, another town that’s considering sensors (along with Scituate), the interim superintendent, Anna Nolin, described the challenge society is facing.
“Prior to vaping our smoking rates were almost nonexistent,” she said. “The case had been made that smoking was an unhealthy and ugly habit and not seen as sophisticated. Now we need to make this same case all over again, but for vaping.”
Meanwhile, even as schools invest in bathroom sensors, the vaping forces are one step ahead. Those with discreet or hands-free vaping needs can now purchase hoodies or backpacks with integrated vaping delivery systems.
“We’re seeing fantastic growth,” said Tom Gruger, the chief executive of Denver-based Vaprwear, which asks website users to self-verify that they are 21 or older.
“We’re trying to be as cautious as possible,” he said, “but kids will do things, as you know.”
Ha ha ha.
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COUGH, COUGH, COUGH!
Sorry, I inhaled too much in$ulting eliti$m.
Related:
"E-cigarette maker Juul, which has vowed to make cigarettes obsolete, is near to inking a deal to become business partners with Altria, one of the world’s largest tobacco companies. The union entails cigarette giant Altria investing $12.8 billion for a 35 percent stake in Juul, at a $38 billion valuation, according to two people briefed on the negotiations. The boards of the two companies were expected to meet Wednesday afternoon to consider the deal, according to one of the people. The deal would give Juul access to Altria’s shelf space in convenience stores and its marketing prowess, and the possibility of putting a mention of its products and coupons into Marlboro cigarette packages. Juul is under scrutiny from public health officials and the Food and Drug Administration for an explosion in the number of teenagers vaping with its products after a youth-oriented marketing campaign. The San Francisco-based company has contended teenage use was an unintended byproduct of its efforts to create an alternative to cigarettes. Juul officials have said that they remain committed to their core values and had initially turned away the deal, whose details were first reported in The Wall Street Journal, but company officials became convinced when Altria agreed to several major concessions, including allowing Juul to have some access to Altria’s customer data. Vaping e-cigarettes is widely considered less harmful than smoking traditional cigarettes. Smoking rates have fallen sharply in recent years, particularly owing to intensive public health campaigns and regulations, and companies like Altria have looked for other business to provide new profit centers, but public health authorities said the deal between the two companies would undercut Juul’s ability to play the cigarette spoiler and show the startup’s own fealty is to profit, not public health."
No, that's wrong! The cigarette companies are the perfect ones to partner with. They would never try to advertise or prey on children.
Despite the bad chemistry, the family Juuls and our democracy are still intact.
If I find any other cartridges lying around I will light them up for you.
Study shows big rise in teen vaping this year
And heart attacks, too.
