After the 2021 National Youth Tobacco Survey showed a massive decline in youth vaping, officials at the government agencies that conduct the annual NYTS went out of their way to explain that the results couldn’t be trusted because half of the students took the survey online from home, rather than in school.
What will the CDC and FDA Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) use as an excuse this year, when overall numbers of school-age vapers barely increased from 2021? High school and middle school vaping in 2022 remained well below even the levels seen in 2020, which themselves represented a 29 percent decline from the 2019 teen vaping peak.
In fact, in 2022 a lower percentage of high school students reported past-30 day vaping than the group of students in 2021 that did take the survey in a school setting (14.1 percent vs 15 percent). (We know this because CDC was kind enough to include a note in last year’s preliminary release explaining that more students surveyed in classrooms reported vaping than those who took the survey at home.)
Jim McDonald – Vaping360.com – 2022-10-06.
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