The WA government is launching a new shock campaign in schools to educate students on the dangers of vaping.

Parents relayed to 6PR Breakfast their concerns about the widespread practice at schools across Perth, before Education Minister Sue Ellery told host Gareth Parker how the new campaign would start with educating school kids and parents.

One parent Lisa said there was a vaping shop near Carlisle Primary School and residents had tried to engage local politicians and the City of Belmont to force the shop to close or remove signage.

“No one wants to do anything about it,” she told Parker.

Another listener – school principal Ryan – told Breakfast some kids “were almost selling on commission” to other students in classes after buying them in bulk.

“We see it daily, there are kids selling vapes to others, and they get $20 per vape they sell as cash from the vape stores and vendors,” he told a shocked Parker.

Minister Ellery said the only way to get vaping legally in WA was on prescription from a doctor, dispensed in the normal way you purchase other drugs.

“The program we’re launching today is the first part of an action plan to tackle vaping, educating schools and kids and their parents about the dangers of vaping,” she said.

“Some of them have high levels of nicotine, highly addictive, other chemicals that you don’t want to be inhaling, because they’re dangerous for all sorts of other reasons.”

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