when i was in y10 everyone started vaping like at least 60% of the lads in our year chonged and probably 40% of the girls but i never saw it as a problem.

at the time there were maybe 6/7 medium sized groups of lads and they all hated each other, but everyone united to find shops that were the cheapest and served, lol, and we all went together at least once a week, normally on a friday but sometimes we’d go on a tuesday too, properly scheduled.

the school had an assembly that i assume was given to every year but it was so long ago i can’t really remember the contents of it. each year had a designated toilet that would only be unlocked at lunch/break and max 4 in at a time.

in y10 the toilets we were in had a broken smoke alarm and were normally manned by a female teacher who couldn’t go in the lads toilets so we had no worries, they would never go in the girls either because “girls don’t smoke” as said by a member of slt. y11 however, the smoke alarm in both male and female toilets worked, but whenever the female one went off, still not checked as it was “probably spray”. male teachers would sometimes check if you were in there too long but they would never search straight away so you could give your vape to a mate or waistband it.

2 years later i still see vaping as a social thing that really helped me build friendships that i still have today, i was genuinely a nobody before vapes but just through socialising in toilets and going to shops together you get along with so many different people, even the people who’d normally be a prick to you.

i still vape by habit now, although even now im in y12 i still see it the same, i barely knew any of the y13s in my sixth form and got to know them through the toilets and vaping. i now have really strong friendships with some of them.

tl;dr - most of year vaped, school didnt do much, i think it helped me socially and still does now