The Problem Arises

In June 2022 the FDA placed a ban on Juul, the company with the most influence on domestic vape with $259 million in pure 100% nicotine e-cigarette and vape sales in the first quarter of 2022. As a result, the Paso Robles Joint Unified School District installed vape sensors manufactured by Verkada, to monitor vape users. Verkada vape detectors are a hybrid of security camera and smoke alarm. When the technology detects a suspect, it immediately sends real time SMS alerts to all staff members under administration and security.
40-50 students have been caught with the innovative technology in the first month and a half of the 2022-2023 school year, According to Michael Godsey, the Assistant Principal.

Shelby LaMendola, the Health Science at PRHS, approaches vaping as a threat to the quality of life.
“Chemicals produced by e-cigarettes are acetaldehyde, acrolein, and formaldehyde which can cause both lung and heart disease,” LaMendola said. “In youth the nicotine can cause deficits in attention, learning, and memory, lower impulse control, mood disorders, and increased susceptibility to addiction (not just to nicotine).”

Vapes were named an epidemic by the US Surgeon Medical in December 2018. According to the FDA, “14.1% (2.14 million) of high school students and 3.3% (380,000) of middle school students reported current e-cigarette use (in the US in 2022).”

Such information was another reason to install the vape detectors, a decision that didn’t come for free: to a statistic used by Karen Vellie, a journalist from the Cal Coast Times, “the district has allotted $315,870 to cover the cost of installing the upgraded security systems” when they made the decision to install them on June 7th, 2022.

According to Michael Godsey, the Assistant Principal of the class of 2023, 40-50 students have been caught with the innovative technology in the first month and a half of the 2022-2023 school year.

Although Godsey preaches that vaping is a “physical threat,” because of the imposed vaping on the non-vapers around them, Godsey deliberates vaping raises an emotional uncertainty for non-vapers.

Godsey stands by the idea that walking into a bathroom on campus is “opposed (due) to the stressful experience of trying to use the restroom while guys or girls break the rules.” that works well you are shortening the quotes and alternating with your own summer he’s very well

Sophomore Ava Friedling, who’s also the Vice President of FNL, a club who implements an awareness of underage drinking and drugs, views security cameras as an awareness factor instead of a problem solver to vaping on campus.

“I’m pretty sure people still vape in the bathroom, but security cameras do help at least see what’s going on,” Friedling said.
Juuls is the main perpetrator of vape sales, collecting $259 million in sales, but concern has risen that vape users on campus will pivot to other manufacturers to satisfy their addictions.

“I think that it (FDA carrying out the ban of Juul products) will cause them (student vape users on campus) to try harder to find different brands to sell,” Friedling said.

In the end, vaping remains a serious problem on campus. Although 40-50 have been caught with new technology to emphasize the FDA’s ban, addiction serves a role in the equation. Will vaping be ended at PRHS through legal force or humble assistance and compassion for the addition of teenagers we interact with everyday.

Such information was another reason to install the vape detectors, a decision that didn’t come for free: to a statistic used by Karen Vellie, a journalist from the Cal Coast Times, “the district has alloted $315,870 to cover the cost of installing upgraded security systems” when they made the decision to install them on June 7th, 2022. 

Was there an affect?

In June 2022 the FDA placed a ban on Juul, the company with the most influence on domestic vape with $259 million in pure 100% nicotine e-cigarette and vape sales in the first quarter of 2022. As a result, the Paso Robles Joint Unified School District installed vape sensors manufactured by Verkada, to monitor vape users. Verkada vape detectors are a hybrid of security camera and smoke alarm. When the technology detects a suspect, it immediately sends real time SMS alerts to all staff members under administration and security.
40-50 students have been caught with the innovative technology in the first month and a half of the 2022-2023 school year, According to Michael Godsey, the Assistant Principal.

Shelby LaMendola, the Health Science at PRHS, approaches vaping as a threat to the quality of life.
“Chemicals produced by e-cigarettes are acetaldehyde, acrolein, and formaldehyde which can cause both lung and heart disease,” LaMendola said. “In youth the nicotine can cause deficits in attention, learning, and memory, lower impulse control, mood disorders, and increased susceptibility to addiction (not just to nicotine).”

Vapes were named an epidemic by the US Surgeon Medical in December 2018. According to the FDA, “14.1% (2.14 million) of high school students and 3.3% (380,000) of middle school students reported current e-cigarette use (in the US in 2022).”

Such information was another reason to install the vape detectors, a decision that didn’t come for free: to a statistic used by Karen Vellie, a journalist from the Cal Coast Times, “the district has allotted $315,870 to cover the cost of installing the upgraded security systems” when they made the decision to install them on June 7th, 2022.

According to Michael Godsey, the Assistant Principal of the class of 2023, 40-50 students have been caught with the innovative technology in the first month and a half of the 2022-2023 school year.

Although Godsey preaches that vaping is a “physical threat,” because of the imposed vaping on the non-vapers around them, Godsey deliberates vaping raises an emotional uncertainty for non-vapers.

Godsey stands by the idea that walking into a bathroom on campus is “opposed (due) to the stressful experience of trying to use the restroom while guys or girls break the rules.” that works well you are shortening the quotes and alternating with your own summer he’s very well

Sophomore Ava Friedling, who’s also the Vice President of FNL, a club who implements an awareness of underage drinking and drugs, views security cameras as an awareness factor instead of a problem solver to vaping on campus.

“I’m pretty sure people still vape in the bathroom, but security cameras do help at least see what’s going on,” Friedling said.
Juuls is the main perpetrator of vape sales, collecting $259 million in sales, but concern has risen that vape users on campus will pivot to other manufacturers to satisfy their addictions.

“I think that it (FDA carrying out the ban of Juul products) will cause them (student vape users on campus) to try harder to find different brands to sell,” Friedling said.

In the end, vaping remains a serious problem on campus. Although 40-50 have been caught with new technology to emphasize the FDA’s ban, addiction serves a role in the equation. Will vaping be ended at PRHS through legal force or humble assistance and compassion for the addition of teenagers we interact with everyday.