How to Prevent a Lifetime Sentence of Nicotine by Reaching Out
to Vancouver's Young Children One of the biggest threats to our
children nowadays in Vancouver is the vulnerability of young
children to the increasing malice of smoking and doing drugs.
Unless taught at a young age, as early as preschool and early
elementary, the children are at an increased risk of developing
weaknesses towards the peer pressure and dangers of smoking and
drugs. An estimated sixty-five percent of high school students
regularly use, or have used drugs since the beginning of high
school. From this number, about 50% of the students began using
drugs as early as middle school. The time to teach children
about drugs is not in middle-school or high-school; the time is
preschool and elementary school. The majority of kid’s learning
takes place between the second and fifth years of their life. It
is here, where children develop independent skills, such as
judgment, determination, and self-confidence. These three skills
are all essential