Love your lungs

Andrew Hallberg, grade 8, and his sister Ella, grade 4, in Cook County ISD 166, administer the “Smell Test: Candy or vape?” Photo courtesy of Anne Brataas

Grand Marais students in BorealCorps’ Story Scouts club, grades 4-9, won a competition to portray posters about their health messages that show the dangers posed by e-cigarettes and vaping to more than 2,000 of the leading researchers on tobacco and health, Aug. 27-29 at the Minneapolis Convention Center.

The goal is to show visitors to the BorealCorps’ project booth how a dangerous, lung-damaging practice such as vaping is marketed to kids by being designed to be flavors kids associate with innocent fun – candy, ice cream, dessert. There are no flavors called “Do Your Chores” or “Homework.”