My name is Winna Morrin, and I’m the mother of three amazing young men. We live in the Tampa Bay Area in Florida. I would like to tell my youngest son’s story. His name is Alex, and it all started when he was 16 years old…

I'm a scientist at Arizona State University and also the mother of a 17 year old. I sent a brilliant, vibrant, intelligent 14 year old girl to high school. She has ADHD and was at risk for drug use…

We are a non-smoking family and have taught our two boys how bad smoking is for them. Early on, they were disgusted by the smell and “look” of people smoking…

In 2017, when my daughter was a freshman in high school, I checked her social media accounts with great frequency. I began to notice tons of kids mentioning Juul and posting photos of themselves vaping…

Eight weeks into Walker’s first semester of college at Florida Atlantic University, where he was awarded a scholarship as a cheerleading athlete, he got sick with what we thought was just the flu. After four long days…

It is not my intention to scare you but our story is terrifying. I am a Houston mother of a 16 year old daughter who is currently in her 6th rehabilitation center for nicotine addiction which began at age 14. Imagine my…

I did not send my 15-year-old son to residential treatment in California for 39 days because he was caught smoking or vaping. I sent him because he had a substance abuse problem. The substance was Juul. Like millions of other parents…

My son Walter died unnecessarily early in September, 2020, 5 days before he was to turn 20 years old. If you read his obituary, you will read that Walter died from an asthma attack. This was a result of his addiction to nicotine….

My son Ricky and I were out to dinner one Tuesday night, talking, laughing, and enjoying our time together. As I sat listening to one of his stories, I was reminded of all the hard work that he had been doing lately to make his life better…

My son Jake (an alias) as we would later learn, began to vape Juul in the summer of 2015 soon after it was introduced to the market. A friend at summer camp gave it to him. He was fourteen and a half years old at the time and going…

My daughter Quinn started using the juul her sophomore year of high school. The first time I found The juul in her car I thought It was a flash drive. I had to ask my two older children what it was, and then they explained it to me…

I cannot even begin to express the damage that vaping has caused my family. As a single mom I was happy when my son went off to college last year. It was very difficult and scary to let him go but I wanted him to strive to reach…

My husband and I have six kids and we live in Los Angeles, California. We met in 1998, moved to Boston from 2004-2014 and moved back to California in 2014. I have always been a part of many parenting groups and teams and believe that…

It has been 1 year since my grandson Austin nearly died as a result of senseless vaping. My daughter Abby and I are both nurses. How could this happen right under our noses? Austin had started smoking cigarettes despite constantly getting mad…

My son Jacob started vaping flavored nicotine in October 2019. He was a 17-year-old honor roll student in the 11th grade, taking AP and Honors classes. He was also a dual sport athlete (Varsity Soccer and Lacrosse). Jacob eventually tried…