Drop in Vaping Drives Tobacco Use by Youth to Record Low

Monday, October 28, 2024

Only 8 percent of teens and tweens reported current use of any tobacco product in 2024

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... The fewest number of U.S. teens and tweens in 25 years are currently using tobacco products.

According to the 2024 National Youth Tobacco Survey, only 8 percent of middle and high school students " or 2.25 million " reported using any tobacco products in the past 30 days. As recently as 2019, 23 percent, or just over 6 million, had reported current tobacco use, driven almost entirely by e-cigarette use, at 20 percent.

E-cigarettes are still the most popular choice, used by 6 percent of middle and high school students in 2024, researchers report October 17 in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Nicotine pouches " a product that releases nicotine when placed between the cheek and gum " came in second for the first time at nearly 2 percent, followed by cigarettes, cigars and smokeless tobacco. The National Youth Tobacco Survey began measuring use among students in 1999. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-28 01:16 AM | Reply

One of the few good things that Trump did was ban flavored vapes.
Also, I don't see it in the article but did the survey ask if the teens are using marijuana instead of tobacco?

#2 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2024-10-28 09:57 AM | Reply

Now they want to push rec mj which today is even more detrimental. A select group always pushes and profits and to be honest is typically behind most like gambling too. But then typically Im libertarian so not immensely opposed.

#3 | Posted by Robson at 2024-10-28 04:02 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

That's because they are all smoking joints instead...

#4 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2024-10-28 04:03 PM | Reply

I quit about 25 years ago... so I was enculturated by Big Tabaco (the Marlboro Man, specifically, lol) up until then.

Also enculturated by Cheech and Chong ('Dave?'), but never by a political cult that gets it's money from Big Tabaco and Big Sugar, which is big killer now.... and who's backers are Darwinists when it comes to the survival of Billionaires/Corporations.

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2024-10-28 04:25 PM | Reply

I grew up in rural Kansas where chewing snuff was a rite of passage to high school.

Every guy in my high school either chewed or tried to chew but couldn't stand it. the peer pressure was very present.

I was the latter, thankfully. I couldn't hold it. made me dizzy and sick almost immediately.

all those guys still chew today.

#6 | Posted by eberly at 2024-10-28 04:42 PM | Reply

I could never even try a, 'chaw' as they said in TX.

But I was willing to play Mumblety-peg with the best of them, so they let me be.

#7 | Posted by Corky at 2024-10-28 04:56 PM | Reply