Vaping among teens has become a growing concern among school leaders and a Champaign County school leader recently weighed in on what they are doing to curb the epidemic.

Dr. Lindsay Hall is the Superintendent of Mahomet-Seymour Schools and says the problem with vaping is that it has been promoted as a safe alternative to nicotine products, when in fact, it is proving to be the opposite.

Various districts have partnered with their community leadership to impose fines on students caught vaping at school. Dr. Hall says that it is something they have not explored. They are taking the approach of communicating the impacts of vaping on their students' health and hoping education will lead to a decline in the activity.

Dr. Hall does not believe disciplinary consequences are a deterrent to bad behaviors but also believes those are conversations that are best left up to individual school districts and doing what is best for them.