To go bananas having seen my 15 year old vaping

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What would you do?
I'm kore sad than angry .
Would you ground them?

They are on the shelves in our local Sainsburys. It isn’t a particularly large one. Hopefully they will be moved soon if they aren’t in yours!

They are right by the checkouts where the supervisor hangs out if it’s busy. Tbf I doubt kids would get away with nicking them from there many times. It’s a small town, everyone knows someone who knows everyone. But having them out like that I don’t agree with anyway.

Most the kids don't get them at supermarkets, they go to the vape shops that have sprung up everywhere, but more commonly they are being sold in school, for a couple of £ each.

@FrogsWormsandCaterpillars in a petrol station near me. They are just at the side of the counter so can b picked up like a pack of crisps while paying. . If parents actually read up on these things or did their homework then they would realise how bad they are. I would imagine in ten years time we will see the wonderful benefits that this beings to the nhs.
my son is very sensible ( he is 19 ) and is baffled at all his friends using them.

I think that as general advice I would be careful with using phrases such as " all teens...."
I think that it is used in place of , all of the teens my child and or teen siblings associate with and therefore I am exposed to. Possibly coupled with how I was as a teen and my friends as a teen.
It has no baring on reality and statistics for an age group.

Back to the point. I'd do my best to prevent it, and be worried about it. I would really hope that it didn't become an addiction.

Bringing up teens is very difficult though. You hope your teen has the strength of character to make their own decisions and not blindly follow others. Congregating as a group without adults can also be very beneficial and promote independence.
However realistically speaking a proportion of teens left to their own devices will make questionable decisions, in the same way that many teens that are not given independence and only participate in adult run activities often lack the opportunity to make their own decisions and benefit from failing.

Haven't read the full thread, but I heard a while ago that teens are more responsive to the idea that corporations are making money out of them, than any health risks. Tell them that they could be dead by 40 and they're Meh, who wants to be 40? Tell them that some rich old men are laughing and making millions out of kids vaping, and maybe they won't want any part of that. Worth a shot

In reality you can’t stop it
you can talk to them, you can ground them, take away money etc but it just leads to them being more secretive, lying, getting friends to get them etc.
it’s not great but keep the lines of communication open and hopefully he’ll mature and stop - mine did

Those talking about cutting off money, do none of your teenagers have jobs?
My DS vapes, I hate it, we talk about how bad it is a lot, but he's not super interested in what I think about most things. He listens, nods his head, looks earnest, then I can smell the sweet smell when he comes home. He doesn't do it very much and I prefer to keep having the conversation than the idea that he thinks I might go bananas about something, so he just doesn't tell me (which is how I would have done with my parents at that age).

Because most were 17 years old and their parents know they vape. It’s not my job to police what other people’s kids do. If they’d been 12 of course I wouldn’t have let them but they’re young adults not little kids.

Yanbu

I hate this better than cigarettes narrative. These things contain nicotine and an insane amount of chemicals and we have no idea of the long term effects or how regulated they are.

I've had asthma attacks from other people blowing then my way outdoors

They're not good

I just wouldn’t have them round if they were going to do that. It looks like you’re condoning it and accepting it as normal.

It would help if the Government wasn’t accepting money from vaping companies and actually made it harder for companies to market and sell vapes to children.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tories-line-pockets-over-kids-30886257