For Your Information - May 6th - Tobacco Outreach Program

Guests were Dr. Alexander Prokhorov, professor, Behavioral Science; Director, Tobacco Outreach Program. And Ashish Arya, program director, Youth & Family Cancer Prevention Program, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. We talked about JUULing, a dangerous form of vaping. JUUL is a vaping delivery system disguised as a hard drive. We talked about what JUULing is, how to spot it, and how it is marketed to kids and young people. We talked about the risks of cancer from JUULING, as well as the damage nicotine does to young people, and the environment. We talked about the ASPIRE education program developed to fight JUULing.