welcome back several deaths and more
than 130 victims with baby related lung
injuries in Texas now the Texas PTA and
the American Heart Association are
teaming up and they hope to put a stop
to the teen vaping crisis here to talk
about this is Texas PTA president sherry
das thank you so much for being here
Thank You sherry at the Texas Capitol
today you held straight talk a matter of
life and breath could you explain your
call to action and what's needed yes we
put out a call of action to all of our
volunteers across the state as well as
our over half a million members that we
have and wanted to partner with school
administrators and physicians and
students who've actually done vaping and
suffered some of the consequences the
begin talking about the topic of teen
vaping we have an epidemic going on and
we need to start the conversations that
will healthy lead to actions of
extinguishing team vaping this
discussion just took place a couple of
hours ago
where was the biggest cry for help did
it come from parents teachers what
stories did you hear let's say the
biggest cry from help came from the
parents and then with the school
administrators right behind them you
know parents are really not well
educated as to the dangers of vaping the
real dangers of vaping and the school
administrators are having to manage this
on their campuses and so parents just
don't know how to talk to their teens
about vaping they don't they aren't
aware of the different devices that are
available and they're just hiding in
plain sight you know we learned today
that some of the vaping devices are pens
or toothpicks or USBs and parents just
you know walk right by them and don't
realize that their own team is actually
vaping so parents really want to learn
about it and then find out figure out
how to how to talk to their children
about vaping with hopes of having them
to stop Jerry the American Heart
Association rolled out the end the lies
Youth vaping and nicotine of research
initiative with initial funding of a
total of twenty million dollars what
projects do you know of are in the works
right now
well of course today was our first time
collaborating with the American Heart
Association on team
and we're absolutely looking forward to
continuing that relationship we've
actually already talked about having
more talks and more discussions and
supporting each other as we both work to
extinguish teen vaping yeah something
big about this is that this initiative
also looks into changing laws and
policies how soon do you think I'll be
able to make that impact well the
legislative session is on the rise but
right now in an interim we are busy
educating everyone and take another look
at the laws that we have the laws we
have right now are certainly not
comprehensive enough and we really want
them to disband all the flavors and
certainly the ones that the teens find
appealing but just ban all of them
altogether and right now that's not
what's happening and so we'll certainly
be looking into pursuing legislation to
cover all of that and then teens
hopefully won't have access to it or
even appeal to those flavors that are
available now all right well we're out
of time sherry Doss thank you so much
for coming in we appreciate it thank you
than 130 victims with baby related lung
injuries in Texas now the Texas PTA and
the American Heart Association are
teaming up and they hope to put a stop
to the teen vaping crisis here to talk
about this is Texas PTA president sherry
das thank you so much for being here
Thank You sherry at the Texas Capitol
today you held straight talk a matter of
life and breath could you explain your
call to action and what's needed yes we
put out a call of action to all of our
volunteers across the state as well as
our over half a million members that we
have and wanted to partner with school
administrators and physicians and
students who've actually done vaping and
suffered some of the consequences the
begin talking about the topic of teen
vaping we have an epidemic going on and
we need to start the conversations that
will healthy lead to actions of
extinguishing team vaping this
discussion just took place a couple of
hours ago
where was the biggest cry for help did
it come from parents teachers what
stories did you hear let's say the
biggest cry from help came from the
parents and then with the school
administrators right behind them you
know parents are really not well
educated as to the dangers of vaping the
real dangers of vaping and the school
administrators are having to manage this
on their campuses and so parents just
don't know how to talk to their teens
about vaping they don't they aren't
aware of the different devices that are
available and they're just hiding in
plain sight you know we learned today
that some of the vaping devices are pens
or toothpicks or USBs and parents just
you know walk right by them and don't
realize that their own team is actually
vaping so parents really want to learn
about it and then find out figure out
how to how to talk to their children
about vaping with hopes of having them
to stop Jerry the American Heart
Association rolled out the end the lies
Youth vaping and nicotine of research
initiative with initial funding of a
total of twenty million dollars what
projects do you know of are in the works
right now
well of course today was our first time
collaborating with the American Heart
Association on team
and we're absolutely looking forward to
continuing that relationship we've
actually already talked about having
more talks and more discussions and
supporting each other as we both work to
extinguish teen vaping yeah something
big about this is that this initiative
also looks into changing laws and
policies how soon do you think I'll be
able to make that impact well the
legislative session is on the rise but
right now in an interim we are busy
educating everyone and take another look
at the laws that we have the laws we
have right now are certainly not
comprehensive enough and we really want
them to disband all the flavors and
certainly the ones that the teens find
appealing but just ban all of them
altogether and right now that's not
what's happening and so we'll certainly
be looking into pursuing legislation to
cover all of that and then teens
hopefully won't have access to it or
even appeal to those flavors that are
available now all right well we're out
of time sherry Doss thank you so much
for coming in we appreciate it thank you
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