Monitoring the Future data confirms public health threat of e-cigarettes
Monitoring the Future data confirms public health threat of e-cigarettes, Truth Initiative Statement, 15 December 2022, The 2022 Monitoring the Future Survey (MTF) confirms that youth vaping remains a serious public health threat, with noteworthy upticks among 10th and 12th graders and increases in daily use (30 days in the last month) across those who vape in all grades and doubling among 8th graders since 2020. Vaping nicotine remains the most common substance use among 8th and 10th graders.
These data are consistent with those published in the 2022 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) from the CDC, which showed that 2.5 million middle and high school students reported current e-cigarette use and almost half of high schoolers who vape do so on a near daily basis.
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Comment: The doubling of daily use of e-cigarettes by 8th graders since 2020 shows that restrictions on e-cigarettes in the US have not been effective.
Stephen Hamann
