Youth E-Cigarette Use Drops to Lowest Level in a Decade

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Public release from CDC
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/p0905-youth-ecigarette.html

Emphasis mine.

Half a million fewer U.S. youth reported current use of e-cigarettes in 2024 compared to 2023, according to new data from the National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) released today by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The nationally representative data featured in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) includes findings on e-cigarette and nicotine pouch use among U.S. youth, two categories of tobacco products the FDA and CDC are monitoring closely, particularly regarding youth use and appeal.

NYTS is an annual school-based, self-administered survey of U.S. middle (grades 6–8) and high school (grades 9–12) students conducted Jan. 22 to May 22, 2024. Findings showed there was a significant drop in the number of U.S. middle and high school students who reported current (past 30 days) e-cigarette use – a decrease from 2.13 million (7.7%) youth in 2023 to 1.63 million (5.9%) youth in 2024. This decline was largely driven by reduced e-cigarette use among high schoolers (1.56 million to 1.21 million), with no statistically significant change in current e-cigarette use among middle school students within the past year. The number of youth who used e-cigarettes in 2024 is approximately one-third of what it was at its peak in 2019, when over five million youth reported current e-cigarette use.

"The continued decline in e-cigarette use among our nation's youth is a monumental public health win," said Brian King, Ph.D., M.P.H., director of the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products. "This progress is a testament to the relentless efforts by the FDA, CDC and others, particularly over the past half decade. But we can't rest on our laurels, as there's still more work to do to further reduce youth e-cigarette use."

Among youth who currently used e-cigarettes, 26.3% reported using e-cigarettes daily. The vast majority of youth who currently used e-cigarettes used flavored products (87.6%), with fruit (62.8%), candy (33.3%) and mint (25.1%) being the top three most commonly used flavors. Disposable e-cigarette products were the most common product type used; however, the most popular brands included both disposable and cartridge-based products. Among youth who currently used e-cigarettes, the most commonly reported brands were Elf Bar (36.1%), Breeze (19.9%), Mr. Fog (15.8%), Vuse (13.7%) and JUUL (12.6%).

Over the past year, a substantive drop occurred in youth reporting use of e-cigarette products under the Elf Bar brand - from 56.7% in 2023 to 36.1% in 2024. Elf Bar is not authorized by the FDA and has been the subject of focused compliance and enforcement actions by the agency since early 2023, including more than 1,000 warning letters and 240 civil money penalties to retailers and others in the supply chain. The FDA has also issued import alerts that include products under the Elf Bar brand, which places them on the "red list" and allows the agency to detain products without conducting a full inspection at the time of entry.

Report: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/mm7335a3.htm?s_cid=mm7335a3_w

Inside this report are links to articles on the contents and effects of E-Cigarettes, Vapes, and other Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems, as well as nicotine pouches.

For your convenience, the e-cigarette article is here:
https://www.fda.gov/tobacco-products/products-ingredients-components/e-cigarettes-vapes-and-other-electronic-nicotine-delivery-systems-ends

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1. Cigarettes are made of tobacco. Smoking tobacco causes cancer. E-cigarettes are made of chemicals.

Why would someone think smoking unknown chemicals are safer than smoking tobacco, a known Carcinogen?

[Elessar Zappa]

2. Cigarettes have a lot more known carcinogens than vapes.

Not saying vapes are that safe but I’d bet my paycheck they’re safer than cigarettes.

[brush]

3. Do you know what the chemicals are? Have decades-long, scientific studies been done on vape smoke to know...

the effects as has been done on smoking tobacco?

NO.

There seems to be faulty reasoning going on.

[usonian]

4. The CDC has a report on the contents of e-cigarettes, added to the OP.

https://www.fda.gov/tobacco-products/products-ingredients-components/e-cigarettes-vapes-and-other-electronic-nicotine-delivery-systems-ends

[brush]

5. Thanks. Here's a quick graph that I copied from your link.

"These products deliver harmful chemicals and contain nicotine, which is highly addictive. Moreover, given the harmful chemicals found in e-cigarettes, further high-quality research on both short- and long-term health outcomes is needed.

Given that there is no safe tobacco product, youth and adults who do not use tobacco products should not start using e-cigarettes."