It’s an epidemic that any parent will be well aware of. Cheap, colourful and creating sickly-sweet flavoured puffs of steam, e-cigarettes, also known as vapes, are now a mainstay of the British teen experience.
Teachers despair of how to deal with students so addicted to nicotine that they have to leave class every 20 minutes – with some schools resorting to using metal-detector wands at the gates or even cutting down hedges where students try to hide.
One secondary school headteacher in Greater Manchester, desperate to stymie the problem, installed specialised vaping sensors in the toilets. The alarms, he said, went off
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