Middletown Students Talk To Younger Teens About Dangers Of Vaping

MIDDLETOWN, NJ — This Thursday, Middletown North and South high school students gave a presentation to sixth, seventh and eighth graders at Thompson, Thorne and Bayshore about the dangers of vaping, or using e-cigarettes.

The high school students are part of a club called "The Bottlecappers," and they have been trained to deliver substance-abuse prevention lessons to younger students and fellow teens. The Bottlecappers program has been in place for decades in the Middletown school district, and it actually was one of the first peer-to-peer substance abuse education programs in the state of New Jersey.

Last September, the FDA determined teenage vaping to be an epidemic among the sixth grade through eighth grade age group.

The older teens talked to the younger teens about the dangers of vaping and offered ideas about how to refuse offers to vape.

Photos provided to Patch by the Middletown school district.