Vapes and Nicotine Pouches: What Every Teacher Should Know in 2025

Everything teachers need to know about nicotine products, student use, and how to respond in 2025

FREE live 30-minute Logo for Zoom webinar for school leaders and teachers to address vaping and nicotine pouch use in your school.

Thursday 14 August, 2025 at 12pm AEST (BNE, SYD, MEL)

Vapes and Nicotine Pouches Aren’t Going Away

But clear guidance on how to talk about them is hard to find.

Your students are already hearing plenty. From TikTok, older peers, and dodgy online ads, most of it is confusing or just plain wrong.

“It’s just flavouring, not real nicotine.”
“Pouches are safer than vaping.”
“Everyone’s doing it.”
“Throwing out vapes isn’t a big deal, it’s just plastic.”


This free session will give you:

  • Clarity, not moral panic
  • Facts, not guesswork
  • Practical tools, not vague warnings
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Who this is for

Teacher in class teaching students
  • Secondary school teachers
  • Principals and deputy principals
  • Wellbeing and health educators

What you’ll learn:

✅ What the law really says about vaping and nicotine pouches

✅ The health, social & environmental consequences of nicotine product use

✅ The influence of marketing, flavours, and misinformation

✅ How to talk to students without lecturing or shutting them down

✅ Tools to help students recognise peer pressure and build refusal skills

✅ Free classroom activities to make nicotine education more effective

Why this is Urgent

Young people are being targeted with colourful ads, sleek devices, and messaging that downplays the risks. Teachers are often left without the facts or frameworks to respond confidently.

This session, led by Dr James Durl, will show you how to challenge the myths and support students to make healthier choices without shame or scare tactics.

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Backed by insights from 250+ workshops with 20,000+ students in Australian schools.

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Practical, evidence-based, and ready for the classroom.

Vapes and Nicotine Pouches: What Every Teacher Should Know in 2025

Everything teachers need to know about nicotine products, student use, and how to respond in 2025

Free live 30 minute webinar | Logo for Zoom

This webinar is for school leaders and teachers to address vaping and nicotine pouch use in your school.

Thursday 14 August, 2025 at 12pm AEST (BNE, SYD, MEL)

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Presented By

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Dr. James Durl

  • Research officer and Lead workshop facilitator of Blurred Minds

  • More than 5 years delivering alcohol, vaping and drug education to schools

  • Multiple award-winning research spanning virtual reality and youth service design

Founded By

Prof. Timo Dietrich

  • Director and co-founder of Blurred Minds
  • Over 10 years of experience in the alcohol, tobacco and drug education space
  • Award-winning behaviour change expert & co-inventor of the Co-create – Build – Engage (CBE™) framework
  • Senior Fellow at National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research, University of Queensland

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