On December 10, 2019, Tim Shoemaker presented “Save Your Breath,” a vaping presentation to the Manville high school and middle school. He provided the school community with multiple presentations on this topic throughout the day. This presentation took him 2 years to create in the meaningful way he did to ensure it had an  impactful effect. 

Timothy Shoemaker is a nationally recognized speaker, trainer, and consultant. He does a 60 minute presentation for various schools on the dangers of vaping, which has suddenly become popular amongst adolescents. When he had presented in Manville, he explained many valuable lessons. He showed the risks and costs of vaping and in smoking in general. For example, one shocking fact he shared with the students was that the current teen/young adult age group have been so outrageous and involved with drugs, they officially made a drug that was thought to have been deemed “safe,” have an overdose. There has officially been a marijuana overdose. He connected this idea with the teen/young adult culture of not seeing or even believing the risks of these “better alternative” drugs.

He proceeded to backup his claims and showed how vapping affected the United States people and families. This is a big deal currently happening with an era of teens smoking early on. Most of the students in Manville had learned a lot grew a deeper understanding of how much vaping or smoking can affect you.