The CDC finds only 22 percent of young people say they tried e-cigarettes because they “are available in flavors, such as mint, candy, fruit or chocolate.”
Over 75 percent of youth vapers apparently don’t care much about flavors, according to the most recent survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“Among middle and high school students who ever tried using e-cigarettes, the most common reasons for e-cigarette use were ‘I was curious about them.’ (55.3 percent),” the CDC reports in its report “Tobacco Product Use and Associated Factors Among Middle and High School Students — United States, 2019.”
Given the choice of selecting any and/or all of 12 different reasons for why they had tried vaping in the first place, only 22.3 percent of young people said because e-cigarettes “are available in flavors, such as mint, candy, fruit or chocolate.” That’s about the same number of them who said they use e-cigarettes because “I can use them to do tricks.”
Nevertheless, despite the lack of association between flavors and youth vaping, the Trump administration recently directed the Food and Drug Administration to pull all flavored vaping cartridges from the market, except menthol and tobacco flavors.
Jacob James Rich – Reason Foundation – January 13, 2020.
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