JOIN THE ESCAPE

Escape the Vape is a PSA video challenge where Clatsop County 6th-12th graders can use their voice to raise awareness about the dangers of vaping and expose the shadowy commercial tobacco marketing tactics behind it. 

Just create and upload your 30-second, vape-bashing masterpiece, and you could win $500 for you and $500 for your school or chosen organization, along with other great prizes. #JoinTheEscapeClatsop

AN ENEMY TO YOUR MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH

Vaping can increase anxiety and stress, make depression symptoms worse, as well as send toxic chemicals through your lungs. Despite that, about 1 in 4 U.S. teens vape daily. And believe it or not, just one disposable vape can contain as much addictive nicotine as 35 packs of cigarettes! Yuck! That’s 700 cigarettes total!

Although vaping may cause serious harm to your mind and body, the commercial tobacco industry* still targets teens like you with fruity, candy flavors and colorful packaging. They’ve been marketing their deadly and addictive products to youth for years. Enter Escape the Vape, expose the harms of vaping, and stand up to the commercial tobacco industry.

*The term “commercial tobacco” refers to products manufactured by companies for recreational and habitual use in cigarettes, e-cigarettes/vapes, smokeless tobacco, pipe tobacco, cigars, hookahs, and other products. Commercial tobacco is mass-produced and sold for profit. Commercial tobacco does not include or refer to sacred tobacco that are used by many Native American tribes in spiritual and cultural ceremony and prayer.