Some students at Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton have formed a group to reduce the harm caused vaping.
The group is called STOMP, and Grade 11 spokesperson Dana Rowsell says she started the group because she has experienced discomfort when using the school’s washroom because of the number of people vaping in those washrooms.
So she started STOMP to be proactive about the problem and try and address it. She says vaping causes problems for everyone, from the people doing the vaping in the washrooms, to the harm it causes to other people using the washrooms, and the harm it causes to school property.
Rowsell says they’re still in the very early talking and planning phase. She says the poster that she made just got printed so they’re hoping to have it up throughout the school and getting information out very soon, and they’ll be starting an Instagram page.
Rowsell says STOMP in CHSS is a pilot program and one of only two similar programs in the province. She says their ultimate goal is to help people stop, or at least minimize, their vaping.
