A new data report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has found 10% of middle and high school students reported current tobacco product use this year.
E-cigarettes were the most commonly-used tobacco product among youths – among the middle school and high school students who use these products, 25.2% used e-cigarettes daily and 89.4% used flavored e-cigarettes.
Among middle and high school students, e-cigarette products were the most used tobacco product in 2023 (7.7%; 2.13 million), followed by cigarettes (1.6%), cigars (1.6%), nicotine pouches (1.5%), smokeless tobacco (1.2%), other oral nicotine products (1.2%), hookahs (1.1%), heated tobacco products (1.0%), and pipe tobacco (0.5%). Among students who had ever used an e-cigarette, 46.7% reported current use, and the most commonly reported brands were Elf Bar, Esco Bars, Vuse, JUUL, and Mr. Fog.
However, the CDC also noted that current e-cigarette use among high school students declined from 14.1% to 10% from last year to this year – an estimated decline of 540,000, from the 2.51 million youthful users in 2022 to 1.97 million in 2023.
