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TexasTowelie

(112,160 posts)
Wed Oct 30, 2019, 07:13 AM Oct 2019

After student is found unconscious in bathroom, Quakertown school district to sue makers of vaping

After student is found unconscious in bathroom, Quakertown school district to sue makers of vaping products


The Quakertown Community School Board has authorized attorneys to sue companies that manufacture and market electronic cigarettes and vaping products, joining the district with other plaintiffs.

School district officials said the timeline for filing the lawsuit isn’t yet determined. But like officials in many districts across the country, they said vaping among students has become a serious problem.

“We haven’t even scratched the surface of the damage these things are doing to our kids,” school board member Keith Micucci said in a recent article on the school district website, qcsd.org.

“From a health care perspective, we know it’s leading to acute respiratory distress syndrome. I really feel strongly that these are marketed toward our most vulnerable population, which are our teenage students who are trying to figure out their way in the world.”

Read more: https://www.mcall.com/news/pennsylvania/mc-nws-pa-quakertown-schools-vaping-lawsuit-20191029-2d4bnkdyv5gcdm6jllj6wwovfu-story.html
(Allentown Morning Call)
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After student is found unconscious in bathroom, Quakertown school district to sue makers of vaping (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2019 OP
That should be an interesting lawsuit. I suspect that the role of personal choice will be abqtommy Oct 2019 #1
That's my school district Freddie Oct 2019 #2

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
1. That should be an interesting lawsuit. I suspect that the role of personal choice will be
Wed Oct 30, 2019, 07:28 AM
Oct 2019

examined and presented by the defense.

Freddie

(9,265 posts)
2. That's my school district
Wed Oct 30, 2019, 08:42 AM
Oct 2019

I heard about the lawsuit but not about the student involved. Unfortunately vaping is how people do pot these days - none of that telltale smell. Yesterday there were drug-sniffing police dogs at the district’s middle school.

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