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E-cigarette Use among Middle and High School Students — United States, 2020.

Friday, September 18, 2020  
Posted by: Natalia Gromov

Wang TW, Neff LJ, Park-Lee E, Ren C, Cullen KA, King BA.  
E-cigarette Use among Middle and High School Students — United States, 2020.  
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. ePub: 9 September 2020. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6937e1external icon.  
 
The 2020 National Youth Tobacco Survey results show that e-cigarette use among high school students declined from a record-high 27.5% in 2019 to 19.6% in 2020. However, this progress falls far short of reversing the alarming increase in youth e-cigarette use since 2017, when 11.7% of high school students used e-cigarettes. The survey also shows that 82.9% of current e-cigarette users use flavored products, 37% of high school e-cigarette users use menthol products, and use of disposable e-cigarettes increased an astounding 1,000% among high school e-cigarette users and 400% among middle school e-cigarette users from 2019 to 2020.