Giving Compass' Take:

• Education Dive reports on data that shows vaping is increasing among teens — and that getting students to lead conversations could be a first step in prevention.

• How might organizations in the public health sector help raise awareness about nicotine use among young people? Which environments would be most conducive to the effort?

• Here's why the rise in e-cigarette use among teens may be connected to flavors.

Heather Ledbetter has watched high schools in Tennessee’s Maryville City Schools (MCS) grapple with the growing use electronic cigarettes by students. "Vaping" e-cigarettes even happens in hallways, she said, to the irritation of students who asked for help from administrators to make it stop.

Their complaints led district leaders to launch a program through CATCH My Breath, a nonprofit health organization that provides free curriculum materials, including those that focus on e-cigarettes that heat a liquid commonly called a "vapor" that the user inhales, for middle and high schools. MCS introduced the program to 8th and 9th graders this semester.

“[Students] were telling us, ‘I don’t want to walk through that,’” Ledbetter, who leads the district’s coordinated school health program, told Education Dive. “We recognized quickly that this is something we need to educate kids, and the community, on.”

Read the full article about rethinking nicotine education by Lauren Barack at Education Dive.