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Luke Costin

'Scariest experience': ex-vaping youth front new push

Xavier Roper and Kate Walker are the faces of a new ad campaign highlighting the harms of vaping. (Luke Costin/AAP PHOTOS)

As Xavier Roper struggled to breathe in bed and his girlfriend ran for help, the perils of his short vape addiction finally hit home.

The Year 12 student had picked up vaping nine months earlier, won over by messaging they were mere flavourful water vapour and safer than cigarettes.

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