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This began the shift in states eventually raising their ages to twenty-one due to the teenage vaping epidemic. [13] By 2019, eighteen states and the District of Columbia had their minimum purchase ages at twenty-one, thirty states had their ages at eighteen, and two had it at nineteen.
The pattern of smoking among youth has had a slightly different trajectory, such that smoking rates for high school students began to increase in the early 1990s and did not begin to decrease until the end of the decade. [6] If the current smoking trends continue, 5.6 million youths alive today will die prematurely. [7]
Counseling Schools used Centers for Disease Control survey data to track teen tobacco and vaping use in the U.S., on a downward trend in schools.
Scripps News spoke with drug control expert Jim Carroll about the marketing strategies used to target vape products to children.
The problem with in-school vaping. While vaping in or near schools is actually illegal in 10 states — and a federal law bans the sale of such products to anyone under 18 (with some states upping ...
This figure, 3.9%, translates to about 580,000 fewer high school students using e-cigarettes – the primary reason for the decline, according to the survey. Sumner County Schools crack down on vaping
The decade of the 2010s saw both the advent and uptick in the prevalence of vaping among American youths, as e-cigarettes became the latest nicotine-delivery device for U.S. consumers. The first commercial e-cigarette hit the markets in 2006. [13] Reports in 2018 estimated that youth vaping is present among 27.5% of the youth population.
Mirabella McCall was just a freshman in high school when she first started vaping. When McCall decided to quit, she documented her journey on TikTok and YouTube. A recent study suggests that while ...