Three central Indiana high schoolers say they're frustrated by friends who use electronic cigarettes.

COLUMBUS, Ind. (WTHR) - Three central Indiana high schoolers say they're frustrated by friends who use electronic cigarettes.

Quincy East, Zuleima Lopez and Naman Satsangi started "VAPE Club," which isn't a club where people get together and vape. Actually, it's the complete opposite.

The teenagers want to enact change to keep their friends from vaping.

"We don't just want this to be a one-year club. We want this to keep growing and keep going," said 17-year-old Zuleima Lopez.

The club started with four members. Now, it's up to 12.

"I definitely don't want this group to stop, even when I graduate," said 17-year-old Naman Satsangi. "I want to be a part of it even when I graduate, come back and just do whatever I can to help because this is a serious problem in today's society, and we need to do whatever we can to stop this."

They plan to connect with their classmates on social media through their recently-launched Snapchat and Instagram accounts: @vapefreebcsc.

They're also talking to their peers face-to-face, participating in community and sporting events and meeting with people in high places.



Satsangi and Lopez recently met with U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams in Indianapolis. He invited them to have a seat at the table, to share some of the ideas they had to combat vaping and to talk about their club.

Satsangi also spoke at a city council meeting to push for the public vaping ban that just went into effect in Columbus.

On Nov. 9, "VAPE Club" is hosting Foundation for Youth for 7th - 12th graders in Columbus from 5 – 10 p.m.

Foundation for Youth has been averaging about 200 teenagers for its teen nights with students from Bartholomew County, Brown County, Seymour, Jennings County and Franklin.

The teen night is an event where teens come to have fun, be safe, and not be judged.