CDC and FDA find youth vaping drops to lowest level in a decade
Youth vaping levels fell to the lowest in a decade this year, according to a new CDC and FDA report. Rates are one-third of the 2019 peak.
Youth vaping levels fell to the lowest in a decade this year, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration.
E-cigarette use among middle and high school students dropped from 2.13 million students in 2023 to 1.63 million students in 2024, according to the National Youth Tobacco Survey, published Thursday.
The total is now about one-third of its 2019 peak, health officials said, when numbers totaled more than 5 million.
The latest survey ran from Jan. 22 through May 22 and included nearly 30,000 students.
“These data are a good reminder that we’re making progress in terms of continued declines of the leading tobacco products used among kids,” Brian King, director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, said on a call with reporters Wednesday afternoon. “But we’ve got to keep our guard up.”
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