A new CDC survey shows that teen vaping is still declining. Oddly, the agency maintains that e-cigarette use among adolescents is an “epidemic.”
More good news from the world of public health: teen vaping continues its steady decline, according to the latest results from the CDC’s National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS).
Just 9.4 percent of middle- and high-school students reported “current use” of vaping products. Media coverage of the survey has stressed that single statistic and the absolute number of adolescents who vape, 2.5 million individuals. Because the CDC defines “current” vaping “as use on ≥1 day during the past 30 days,” these figures are somewhat misleading.
Just 27.6 percent of these students (700,000 in total) reported vaping every day. Segmenting the rest of the survey population into groups based on how many days they vaped, the CDC found that “42.3% reported using e-cigarettes frequently [on 20-30 days], including 46.0% of high school students and 20.8% of middle school students.” As Filter’s Alex Norcia reported on October 6, frequent and daily teen vaping are remarkably low when calculated as percentages of the total number of students in the US:
Cameron English – American Council on Science and Health – 2022-10-10.
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