Do you know what's in your vape? Vapes confiscated from some school pupils contain high levels of lead, nickel and chromium.
The boys say it is easy to ignore the risks.Leon said regulation and policing should be doing more to tackle the problem.Head teacher Mat Carpenter was horrified by the findings. He has installed sensors in the school toilets to try to reduce opportunities to vape.
"Lead is a neurotoxin and impairs brain development, chrome and nickel are allergens and metal particles in general in the bloodstream can trigger blood clotting and can exacerbate cardiovascular disease," he said. But Mr Lawson said there had been a much greater rise in illegal products recently and "some of these are hard to distinguish between the ones which are potentially legal".
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