Western Australia’s education department will trial vape detectors in school toilets in a bid to stop students inhaling from electronic cigarettes.
Minister for Education Tony Buti says the detectors will initially be installed at 10 public schools to combat “this problem that is impacting many of our school students.”
“We will look at whether detectors are an efficient way to detect students who are vaping, and, of course, that will be used to try and eliminate the use of vapes in schools,” he told reporters on Wednesday.
“It is a scourge on our society.”
Buti said parents, teachers and principals had told him nicotine vaping was a “major problem”, and six public and some private schools had already installed vaping detectors….