Written By- Lauren Groff
Three Sparta High School students were featured on CBS This Morning in an interview regarding
the use of Juul in schools. The interview, which aired on Friday, August 30, was an addition
to the investigative report regarding the health effects and deceitful marketing of e-cigarettes
conducted by CBS network. The previous Thursday, CBS anchor Tony Dokoupil interviewed Juul CEO,
Kevin Burns. In the interview, Burns denied that Juul marketing concepts were geared towards a
youth market. To follow up this claim, Dokoupil turned to the students and staff of Sparta High.
SHS seniors Greg Puszcz, Lauren Groff, and Sebastion Gomez were selected by the
Sparta administration to speak on behalf of SHS in the nationally televised interview with Dokoupil.
“It was such a cool experience seeing how the set worked and how much effort, planning,
and detail goes into a television production”, noted Puszcz.
In addition to the interview, the roughly four-minute segment featured the installation of Halo
vapor detection systems throughout the school, Superintendent , Dr. Michael Rossi discussing
their costly price, “a thousand dollars each”. While the use of e-cigarettes is evidently a nationwide
epidemic, Sparta High School is taking precautionary measures to deter its frequency throughout
the school day.
The full video package can be accessed here, on the CBS official website:
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