AURORA | A growing chorus of Aurora teenagers has become a regular presence at city council meetings, all carrying the same message that youth vaping is quietly harming their generation, and the city needs to take action.
“Let all reunite for a better future,” 15-year-old Sarah Padilla Zepeda told the Sentinel, while pointing out that it closely follows the name of their youth coalition.
They call themselves United for Better Futures, a branch of the long-standing Aurora Partners for Thriving Youth coalition. The students say they’ve watched vaping move from a curiosity to a crisis, spreading through middle school hallways, bathrooms, lunch tables, parks and increasingly younger grades…