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Seeing Through the Haze promotional package

On this page you will find content to help promote the Seeing Through the Haze education resources for upper primary and secondary school-aged students. The promotional package can be shared with school leadership, teaching staff, school nurses, community health and youth services, local government and public health units, and more.

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What is the Seeing Through the Haze?

Seeing Through the Haze is an educational resource to equip students in upper primary and secondary school with the critical thinking skills to create change for a smoke and vape-free future. Structured as a three-part learning sequence, Seeing Through the Haze is evidence-based, curriculum aligned and free to access for teachers and health educators.

Seeing Through the Haze is structured as a three-part learning sequence. The Student Resource includes a range of activities that can be selected, across three modules:

  1. Getting the Facts - learn the foundational knowledge and skills required to understand vaping and its impacts on health.
  2. See Through the Haze - examine how the marketing and advertising of vaping purposefully targets young people and the tactics used by industry.
  3. Making Change - the culmination of the resource which brings together students’ knowledge and skills to create a campaign that can be applied within their school and local community.

Importantly, through these modules, students also gain an understanding of how social factors influence decision making; investigate vaping cessation support options; and identify local community organisations and professionals who they can work with to create healthier environments.

To support the delivery of Seeing Through the Haze, you will receive the Seeing Through the Haze Teaching Guide. Designed to be used alongside the Student Resource, the teaching guide explains the structure of the student resources and contains lesson planning and delivery suggestions, curriculum links and answers to the activities. Possible extension activities are also included should you wish to deepen student learning further.

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Shareable content

Below you will find pre-prepared copy that can be shared in your workplaces and with your professional networks via newsletters, emails or digital education platforms. You are welcome to tailor this copy to best suit your audiences.

Long form (for eDMs and newsletters)

Empower Your Students with Free Vaping Education Resources

Did you know 30% of Australian 12-17-year-olds have tried a vape? With the rise of vaping among young people, it’s more important than ever that schools and other settings where young people live, work or play provide clear, evidence-based education.

Quit offers Seeing Through the Haze, a free evidence-based and curriculum-aligned education resource for upper primary and secondary school-aged students, designed to help address this critical topic.

Seeing Through the Haze:

  • engages students with activities and discussions grounded in real-world scenarios
  • supports teachers and health educators with comprehensive guides, making lesson preparation easy and delivery effective
  • fosters critical thinking by encouraging students to explore the health and social impacts of vaping.

Whether you're introducing this topic for the first time or reinforcing prior learning, these materials provide everything you need to deliver impactful lessons and build health behaviour change.

Access Seeing Through the Haze education resources by visiting vapingfacts.org.au/for-schools-and-health-educators

Let’s work together to create healthier futures for our young people!

Short form (for social media)

Social post option 1:

Looking for impactful education resources on vaping for young people? @quitvic's free evidence-based, curriculum-aligned, student resources and teaching guides help schools and other settings address this critical topic. Access Seeing Through the Haze: vapingfacts.org.au/for-schools-and-health-educators

Social post option 2:

30% of Australian 12–17 year-olds have tried a vape. It’s more important than ever that schools provide clear evidence-based education. @quitvic offers free student resources & teaching guides to help schools address this critical topic: vapingfacts.org.au/for-schools-and-health-educators

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Additional resources

Education resources postcard

Provides a brief overview of Quit's education resources with a QR code that directly links to vapingfacts.org.au/for-schools-and-health-educators

Available to download

Case studies

Hear directly from schools, teaching staff and students:

Factsheets

A range of fact sheets and information on vaping including:

Other resources

School Challenge 2024

Read about our School Challenge and view some of the Seeing Through the Haze student-designed campaigns.

Quick vaping facts

  • The number of 14–17-year-old Australians who vape has risen almost 12-fold in just four years (during the period 2018-2022)1
  • Teenagers aged 12-17 years who have never smoked cigarettes but vaped are 5 times more likely to start smoking cigarettes2
  • In 2022, the Victorian Quitline received calls from clients as young as 12 years seeking help to stop vaping
  • Aerosol produced by vapes is not water vapor, but a mixture of corrosive chemicals that are harmful to delicate lung tissue
  • Many vapes contain nicotine despite this not being listed in the ingredients
  • Vaping has been linked to anxiety disorders, higher perceived stress levels, depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation in adolescents
  • School-based prevention programs protect and prevent use and help build health literacies which are positively related to better health outcomes
  • Legal access to therapeutic vaping products for people under 18 years varies across Australia: some jurisdictions prohibit sales, others require a prescription from a medical or nurse practitioner, and others restrict dispensing of such products to minors or their parents on their behalf (regardless of a prescription). For detailed guidance, refer to the Therapeutic Goods Administration's (TGA) web page on prescribing and dispensing vaping products to patients under 18

References

1 Wakefield M, Haynes A, Tabbakh T, Scollo M, Durkin S. Current vaping and current smoking in the Australian population aged 14+ years: February 2018-March 2023. Prepared for: Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care: Melbourne, Australia, May 2023.

2 Egger S, David M, Watts C, Dessaix A, Brooks A, Jenkinson E, Grogan P, Weber M, Luo Q, Freeman B. The association between vaping and subsequent initiation of cigarette smoking in young Australians from age 12 to 17 years: a retrospective cohort analysis using cross-sectional recall data from 5114 adolescents. Aust N Z J Public Health. 2024 Oct;48(5):100173. doi: 10.1016/j.anzjph.2024.100173. Epub 2024 Sep 10. PMID: 39261180.

For additional information or questions on Quit’s education resources, please contact Quit on QuitVicCommunities@cancervic.org.au

Last updated January 2025

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