Three million American teens used e-cigarettes into 2015

Teen tobacco control hasn’t declined at all since 2011 — plus it looks like the rising popularity from e-cigarettes is on blame. A CDC report published shows today because, in only four years, this rate of e-cig use among high school students developed tenfold — rising to 16 percent in 2015, from 1.5 percent while 2011. As middle school students, the rate of e-cig use rose to 5 percent, to 0.6 percent in 2011
The rate of high school students that smoke regular cigarettes declined by 9 percent in 2015, from 16 percent into 2011, just e-cigs are more popular than ever. Into 2015, the number of middles plus high school students that said they were current users from e-cigarettes rose to 3 million, up of 2.5 million in 2014, this CDC says. That means one of the 4.7 million students that said all did current users from at least one tobacco product latest year, more than half used e-cigs. So, even but teens aren’t smoking conventional cigarettes as much as they once did, they’re still consuming nicotine.
“E-cigarettes give now one most commonly used tobacco product among youth plus use continues to climb,” CDC Director Tom Frieden said in a statement. “No form of youth tobacco control is safe. Nicotine is an addictive drug plus uses during adolescence may cause lasting harm to mastermind development.”
That isn’t that first time that CDC has warned Americans on teens using those battery-powered devices, whichever vaporize liquid nicotine. Latest year, one agency called the phenomenon “alarming.” And this past January, the CDC announced that 18.3 million middle and high school students had done opened on ads for e-cigs in 2014. Since e-cigs come in many various flavors — like vanilla and chocolate — they’re particularly appealing to teens. Such tastes last banned into regular cigarettes. So curb this rise from teen vaping, the CDC wants so impose strict e-cig regulations plus ban their sale so minors (right now the only e-cigs that are regulated are those that last marketed for therapeutic purposes). But getting these laws approved has taken a long time. Even though they did first offered in April 2014, they’re still being finalized with the US government.