For 17-year-old Tyrone, vaping became such an issue in his regional high school that he felt the need to tell the country about it.
It prompted him to go on the ABC's Q+A and ask a question of the panel of federal politicians, a pharmacist, and a local Indigenous representative:
"What steps are being taken to ensure that e-cigarettes and vapes are not being marketed as a safer alternative to smoking, particularly to young children?"
The Riverland teenager said the products were readily available in his area and he knows of children as young as 13 vaping.
It comes as the Albanese government has cracked down on imports and marketing of e-cigarettes, while South Australia has launched an education campaign targeting students.
For Tyrone, the breaking point was being unable to access areas of his school without smelling e-cigarette vapour.
"For me it was walking into the toilets, no matter what time, and all I could smell would be raspberry flavoured air," he said.
But it is not just Tyrone, there is a growing number of young people who are worried about their friends and fellow students who have developed a nicotine addiction because of the deceptive, sweet flavours.
Sakina, a 17-year-old Riverland student, said she was worried the prevalence of its use is masking the impacts nicotine addiction can have on health.
"You smell it and it's sweet and you're like 'oh wow, what is this?'" she said.
"They don't realise it but it's nicotine and it's very addictive, it's very hard to control that."
Psychiatrist and Australian Medical Association (SA) president Dr Michelle Atchison said almost a third of 14 to 17-year-olds have tried vaping.
"Nicotine is one of the most addictive substances that we know," she said.
"Once you start breathing in nicotine it takes a very short time to get addicted to that."
Dr Atchison said she would like to see a stop to vapes that are marketed as nicotine free but contain nicotine, as well as flavoured vapes.
"We also want them to stop having those flavours in them that are appealing to young people," she said.
Cancer Council SA prevention and advocacy manager Christine Morris said some young people are seeking help to quit.
"The youngest caller to the Quitline has been 12, and the oldest has been 79," she said.
"Stopping the sales to minors is really a critical part of this."
For Sakina, she knows the problem will not be an easy fix.
"I think that it's not a one night solution, I don't think you're going to wake up the next day and the problem is going to be solved," she said.
"I think for any solution, we just need to have patience and work collaboratively with everyone."
State minister for education Blair Boyer has been contacted for comment.
