Some of the LinkedIn Responses are direct and on-point, and also hilariously/depressingly based depending on how you look at it:
EDIT: In hindsight, I think I should’ve looked into posting this in a different community… It’s closer to a silly “innovation”… soo… is this considered FUD? I also don’t support smoking or vaping, especially among kids. Original title had “privacy-violating” before the “solution”.
It’s not really the detector that I have a problem with here, it’s the “reduce vaping incidents through social influence” part. Their plan (as I understand it) is to have a display outside the washroom to tell other kids that the person in the washroom is vaping and essentially get them to quit through public shaming, which is both cruel and ineffective. If the detector instead alerted teachers privately that there was someone vaping in the washroom then the teachers would deal with it appropriately, I think it could be okay.
My brother used to vape back in high school, and punishment never got him to stop, it just made him get more creative about how he hid it. When he eventually did quit after he graduated, he chose to because he knew it was harmful.
I think it is a bigger issue. I think the vaping companies need to be held liable for targeting under age kids.
I think long term the idea is to keep them from starting to begin with. That’s hard to do but getting it out of school will reduce the spread of the addiction. It definitely will be appreciated by the students who don’t vape and don’t want to smell or inhale it.