Prognosis
Teenage E-Cigarette Use Falls While Flavors Remain Popular
- Number of users drops to 3.6 million from 5.4 million
- Trump policy exemptions give boost to menthol, disposables
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Teenagers’ e-cigarette use declined this year, according to an influential annual survey, marking a positive trend that health officials say still leaves the number of users too high.
In 2020, 19.6% of high-school students and 4.7% of middle-school students said they vaped, according to the National Youth Tobacco Survey, which is co-sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration. Both figures are down from last year, when more than a quarter of high-school students and about 1 in 10 middle-school students reported using e-cigarettes.