Psychologist Mihai Copăceanu draws a great alarm signal: the students, many of them, are facing nicotine addiction, and the withdrawal in which the young people arrive are observed in the classrooms.
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“I look at high school and high school students and I see them agitated and irritable. And it is not from ADHD, nor from technology. There are new explanations. They are in withdrawal”, said psychologist Mihai Copăceanu on his Facebook page.
The specialist recalls in this context the statement of a professor in the United Kingdom who publicly acknowledged a at least alarming phenomenon: “Some children are unable to focus and become agitated because they cannot get that dose of nicotine and this leads to agitation. I have seen cases of children who were in the classroom. ” Vapation has a negative effect on the behavior of the students, considers the psychologist Mihai Copăceanu. “Eventually, it will have an effect on the performance of the students, because if they cannot concentrate, they cannot learn. Vapation has an effect on the brain of children.
We have a law, but it does not apply. “Students go during the hours to the toilet to spare”
At the end of February 2024, the Chamber of Deputies, for decision, adopted a draft law that provides for the prohibition of the sale of electronic cigarettes under 18 years. Moreover, products containing tobacco, electronic cigarettes, refilling vials for electronic cigarettes can no longer be sold by automatic.
It is also forbidden to sell through Easybox devices. The project provides for sanctions of up to 100,000 lei, depending on the seriousness of the deed. However, this law does not apply in many schools, draws the attention of psychologist Mihai Copăceanu. “Waying in the school becomes a much more serious problem than in the past years, and the school regulations, although existing, have no efficiency ”, he says.
“The children go out during the hours, go to the toilet just to spare. During the breaks, the high schools in Romania (but also the secondary schools), and of course the faculties and here I refer to the courts but also to the space in front of the school are areas of young people who smoke. Hundreds of young people, on the stairs, on the road. “
What can be more inappropriate than medical students smoking massively on the stairs of the Faculty of Medicine, he asks, rhetorically, the psychologist: “In Romania, because in no other European state you will see such a public conduct.”
However, there are exceptions, Mihai Copăceanu points out. These are those educational institutions where discipline and respect are almost self -employed: “Show me one Military high school where students dressed in uniform during breaks are in the yard or outside the high school and smoke at the high school commander as they pass them. Would it be possible? Or, even simply, show me a theological seminar in which the students will smoke in front of the teachers. How does the prohibition work there and not in other high schools? ”, SHe asks, rhetorically, the psychologist who comes and with an answer: “It’s simple: because we don’t care, because it’s not our job. During this time we have too high a tobacco addicts today who will develop other addictions and here is a much more ill society.”
Pneumologist: “Electronic cigarettes contain nicotine and addiction like classic ones”
In Romania, as everywhere, moreover, electronic cigarettes are extremely popular among young people. “Unfortunately, as dangerous as they are, I am so tempting. And I mean here in teenagers and young people. Even in 10.11 -year -olds who use these vaping devices as toys“, Pneumologist Beatrice Mahler told” Adevărul “. “They are attractive devices, and in the era of the technology in which we are young people want to have and use such devices”, Says the doctor.
Electronic cigarettes contain nicotine and they also addictive, as well as classic cigarettes “Cigarettes, in general, are a drug. What is very serious is that they have unlimited access to children with increasing ages. Because they find them anywhere, in almost any store, because they are accessible as a price, the little ones buy them, they try them and they can no longer stop. high risk drugs is just one step”, Draws attention to the pneumologist.
