The Washington Post (10/6, McGinley) reports that “more than 2.5 million adolescents were current e-cigarette users in 2022, with the majority choosing flavored, disposable products, according to a” federal study. These “findings, from the National Youth Tobacco Survey conducted by the” FDA and CDC, and published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, “show more than 14 percent of high-schoolers and 3.3 percent of middle-schoolers were current users, defined as those who used e-cigarettes at last one day in the past month.”
The New York Times (10/6, Jewett) reports the study “showed that 85 percent of adolescent e-cigarette users favored vapes in fruit, dessert and candy flavors.” The findings also revealed that “one in four of the high school students who were e-cigarette users reported vaping every day.”
The AP (10/6, Perrone, Stobbe), Reuters (10/6, Mishra), and HealthDay (10/6, Roberts Murez) also report on the findings.
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