Fact Sheets
Share information about the dangers of vaping and e-cigarettes.
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Vaping is rampant among Delaware students.
With proper knowledge and tools, we can help combat nicotine addiction among middle and high school students — and prevent it in the future.
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Well equipped to help them quit.
Whatever your role, find the facts, practical tools, and evidence-based resources you need to help.
Cessation Help
Support them with trusted quit resources and tools.
Learn MoreFor Educators
Help them breathe easier and make your classroom (and curriculum) anti-vape.
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They lean on you — find the resources to help them learn too.
Learn More95.5% of Delaware high school students who use tobacco products are vaping.
About 11% of students are using tobacco products — and nearly all of that use is driven by e-cigarette use (vaping). By comparison, cigarettes (1%–2%), cigars (up to 3%), and hookahs (up to 2%) are reported far less often.
Source: 2024 Delaware Youth Tobacco Survey
Delaware HS Students Who Use Tobacco Products
Vaping Fact Sheets
Vaping 101: A Primer on the Dangers
Check out the fact sheets about e-cigarettes – what they are, how they became a youth crisis, their risks and harmful effects, the 10 important warning signs of student vaping, and more. Order FREE printed copies of the items below or view them now.
Vaping Overview
This informative sheet reveals what e-cigarettes look like, how they work, their nicotine content, brands to be on the lookout for, and more.
Effects of Vaping
Learn the signs and symptoms of e-cigarette use, how nicotine affects adolescent brains, and the dangerous differences between regular cigarettes and e-cigarettes.
Cessation Solutions
There are plenty of organizations and resources out there offering help for teens who want to quit. This fact sheet can show someone a way out.
Signs of Vaping
Learn to recognize the 10 telltale signs of student vaping, from dry mouth, scented breath, and severe coughs to suspicious batteries, wires, and more.
Flavored Tobacco
Tobacco companies are still finding ways to talk to teens. This fact sheet gives a quick look at some of their tactics.
Cessation options
Students want to quit. You want to help.
Nicotine exposure during adolescence, a critical period for brain development, can cause addiction and harm the developing brain. Many vape pods can deliver the nicotine equivalent of 20 regular cigarettes. Fortunately, Delaware has a dedicated 24/7 resource that e-cigarette users, now as young as age 13, can use to find the support they need to quit successfully.
It’s free. It’s confidential. No one has to know. It’s the right call to make for any student or educator who vapes or smokes. The Delaware Quitline offers invaluable support, resources, and personal encouragement to anyone who wants to quit vaping, smoking, or using other tobacco products.
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American Lung Association Cessation Resources for Youth
Are you a student or teen who is serious about quitting tobacco or vaping? This website is serious about helping you, with proven nicotine cessation programs, including N-O-T (Not on Tobacco) and IN-DEPTH, that walk you step by step through the process, explain what to expect, and more.
Truth Initiative: This Is Quitting
Quitting smoking or vaping is a journey no teen should take alone. This Is Quitting is the first-ever text-to-quit vaping service to help you deal with the cravings and slip-ups of quitting. It offers inspirational stories and motivational messaging from others who’ve been where you’ve been. We’re here for you.
Truth: Ditch Juul
Another link to the This Is Quitting text-to-quit service, this site is available to teens 24/7. It will send you tips, tricks, and encouragement to deal with the stress, anxiety, and cravings of quitting. You can do this. We can help.
Nemours Teens’ Health: Vaping
This site brings a unique teen perspective to the national epidemic of vaping. From vaping’s effect on teen health and how e-cigarettes work to how vape marketers target young people, learn how nicotine addiction can happen and how teens can get help to quit.
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For Educators & Parents
Help yourself help them.
Parents and educators have their own sets of challenges and priorities when it comes to teen vaping and e-cig use. Here, you’ll find knowledge and resources that can equip you to talk, learn, and do something about it — and protect the teens in your life from the dangers of vaping.
For Educators
Guides, resources, and even curriculum to help you engage students, other teachers, and parents in the fight against the teen vaping epidemic.
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For Parents
Stay in the know about the facts and dangers of vaping, why teens do it, how you can spot it, and how you can help your teen escape the influence.
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Additional Resources
Annual health care costs rise by 2,000 for Americans who vape
May 24, 2022 | USNews.com
The vaping epidemic is still in its infancy, and it’s already taking a toll on U.S. health care costs. This article describes the impact in detail and forecasts the future if vaping continues to increase.
Nicotine poses special risks to teens
May 19, 2022 | ScienceNewsForStudents.org
Teens are especially sensitive to the effects of nicotine, become addicted faster, and are still developing physically and mentally. This cocktail of risk factors can have devastating effects that last well into adulthood.
First-of-its-kind longitudinal study launched to track and analyze lung health in millennials
May 11, 2022 | News-Medical.net
An upcoming study will follow 4,000 adults age 25 to 35 for five years to evaluate how their environment, lifestyle, physical activity habits, and the pandemic affect their respiratory health.
Effective anti-vaping advertisements can have the greatest impact on teens
May 10, 2022 | News-Medical.net
A study found that teens are most receptive to anti-vaping messaging that focuses on the health effects, that they are less receptive to content that uses “teen speak” like hashtags and memes, and that flavor-based messaging actually makes vaping more attractive.
E-cigarettes can increase inflammation in the brain, heart, lungs, and colon
April 21, 2022 | MedicalNewsToday.com
We know that vaping causes short-term inflammation. But that may set you up for future disease and even death, according to this article. Research on vape flavors and COVID immune response is also featured.
Teens are trying — but failing — to quit vaping nicotine, new research shows
March 22, 2022 | BostonGlobe.com
Just being around other smokers makes quitting cigarettes a more daunting task, and now research shows that teens are trying and failing to quit vaping when they’re exposed to it at school and other places where they’re among friends and peers.
Evidence grows for vaping’s role in gum disease
February 22, 2022 | ASM.org
Smoking is a known risk factor for gum disease. And with new evidence that e-cig users have their own set of oral health concerns, including microbiome and altered immune response, this study may have uncovered yet another similarity between traditional and electronic cigarettes.
Secondhand nicotine vaping at home may increase risk of bronchitic symptoms in young adults
January 11, 2022 | News-Medical.net
Vapes and cigarettes may be more alike that users think. This study shows that secondhand nicotine vapor in the home is linked to heightened risk of bronchitic symptoms and shortness of breath.
Adult Vapers Have a 15% Higher Risk of Suffering a Deadly Stroke at a Younger Age Than Smokers
November 08, 2021 | MedicalXpress.com
Taking up e-cigarettes to quit smoking tobacco may be misguided. Preliminary American Heart Association research recently found that although stroke was more prevalent among traditional cigarette smokers, e-cigarette smokers had a 15% higher risk of having a stroke at a younger age.
Youth Use E-Cigarettes to Relieve COVID-19 Anxiety. But the Nicotine in Them Can Amplify Depression.
October 14, 2021 | Chron.com
It’s no secret that nicotine is harmful and addictive to developing young brains. Now, peer studies are proving nicotine can worsen symptoms of depression and anxiety — just as young people are turning to vaping to reduce their anxiety over COVID-19 transmission and isolation. Two crises are now colliding.
CDC Cites Nicotine Addiction, Flavored Liquid Among Causes of Youth E-Cigarette Epidemic
September 09, 2020 | CDC.gov
In a recently published article, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) outlines the causes and effects of the ongoing youth e-cigarette epidemic, and offers scientifically backed methods for parents, teachers, and mentors to help prevent use of e-cigarettes.
New Study Negates Previous Data Linking Nicotine Use and Lower COVID-19 Risk
August 11, 2020 | UCSF.edu
Published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, the study found that vaping and use of cigarettes and e-cigarettes (dual use) is associated with increased likelihood of experiencing symptoms of, being tested for, and being diagnosed with COVID-19.
FDA Launches Online Vaping Prevention and Education Resource Center
The Vaping Prevention and Education Resource Center provides free science-based, standards-mapped materials that teachers can use to help their students understand the dangers associated with vaping and nicotine addiction. CTP also developed free materials for parents and teens.
The launch of the resource center illustrates FDA’s continued commitment to youth vaping prevention. We will be continuously updating the resource center with new materials, so check back often for the latest resources.
Teachers will find lesson plans, interactive tools, infographics, and videos with tobacco facts and tips about how to teach teens about the dangers of vaping.
Parents will find fact sheets, videos, and resources to help them understand and recognize vapes, talk with their children, and keep the conversation going over time.
Students will find real-life stories and relatable content to help them understand vaping, nicotine addiction, common myths about vapes, and how to say no to vaping.
The Ugly Truth Brochure
This informative piece reveals the many ways tobacco companies target young people who don’t smoke cigarettes, to take up tobacco in other forms. From addictive vape devices and e-cigarettes to flavored little cigars and more, these nicotine-laced products also contain hydrogen cyanide, benzene, arsenic, and cadmium, plus tar and other cancer-causing toxins. To learn about the temptations facing kids and how to talk with them about the dangers of tobacco use in any form, download this brochure.
CDC.gov Quick Facts
The CDC has a webpage about e-cigarettes that provides general information as well as resources for:
- Parents
- Educators
- Health care providers
CDC.gov: E-Cigarette or Vaping Products Visual Dictionary
See and learn about the different generations of vape devices, as well as user terminology and substances like e-liquids, synthetic cannabinoids, and CBD oil. Good information for:
- Parents
- Educators
- Health care providers
Surgeon General E-Cigarette Info
Get the facts on why e-cigarettes and young people don’t mix, how nicotine affects young brains, the dangerous student trends in middle schools and high schools, and much more. Site is designed for:
- Parents
- Educators
- Health care providers
Surgeon General Health Care Provider Conversation Card
This presentation for pediatricians and health care providers for adolescent patients provides many persuasive talking points about the very real risks of vaping, including young people’s higher propensity for nicotine addiction, the dangerous chemicals in e-cigarettes, and more.
CDC.gov
These materials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveal virtually everything health care providers need to know about e-cigarettes and their impact on young patients, including what they look like, how they work, how many youth have become addicted, and the harm they do to adolescent brains.
SAMHSA Guide on Reducing Vaping Among Youth and Young Adults
This guide targets school administrators, community leaders, educators, parents, and policymakers. It informs them about the rising rates of vaping among youth and discusses effective programs and policies to prevent vaping, challenges to reducing e-cigarette use and vaping, and program and policy implementation strategies that can be used to address those challenges.
Youth Nicotine Cessation Resources for Clinicians
These free nicotine cessation materials from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) are available for health care providers to share with adolescent and pediatric patients who vape, smoke, or use tobacco products. These tools can help young people to quit successfully — through clinical interaction, the use of electronic health records, and nicotine replacement therapy, as well as cessation services such as text, telephone quit lines, and online resources. Learn about AAP’s Behavioral Cessation Supports for Youth here. View and download materials directly, below.
The Dirty Truth
This website, sponsored by the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services, provides kids with eye-opening information on what’s really in their vape pod juice or e-cigarettes. There’s also a news section and a TV commercial showing the devious ways addictive nicotine finds its way into young people’s lungs.
Kick Butts Generation
Now there’s an organized group of Delaware teens who are taking back their lives from tobacco and nicotine. This site for today’s new generation hosts inspiring thoughts, good information, interactive games, quitting programs, events, and more.
Nemours E-Cigarette Info for Teens
This site brings a unique teen perspective to the national epidemic of vaping. From vaping’s effect on teen health and how e-cigarettes work to how vape marketers target young people, it explains how nicotine addiction can happen and how teens can get help to quit.