The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) doubled down on what’s still being touted as a youth vaping “epidemic” when releasing new data on October 6.
Its annual National Youth Tobacco Survey found that youth vaping rates have modestly increased since 2021, but are still substantially down from a few years ago.
In 2022, according to the agency, 14.1 percent of high school students and 3.3 percent of middle school students reported “current e-cigarette use”—which can mean vaping just once in the past 30 days. Disposables remain the number one choice among youth, with 57.2 percent of those “current” e-cigarette users reporting that they used those products most often.
In 2021, CDC data showed “current” use of e-cigarettes at 11.3 percent and 2.8 percent for high schoolers and middle schoolers, respectively. Those figures were a marked decrease from 2020—when they were 19.6 percent and 4.7 percent. But the agency discouraged comparisons to past years, because many students completed the surveys at home as opposed to in school as they had previously.
Alex Norcia – Filter- 2022-10-06.
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