Article Excerpt: In a recent report on the use of tobacco and related products among high-school students, the CDC announced that students’ current (past-month) e-cigarette use increased from 1.5 percent to 13.4 percent between 2011 and 2014. That so many teens are using e-cigarettes is surprising, but it fits with the high levels of use we saw in last year’s Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey, released in December, which found that 17.1 percent of high school seniors and 16.2 percent of tenth graders were current e-cigarette users. The appeal of these new products to youth is thus no longer a matter of uncertainty: They are a major new drug trend.
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Article Source: Collaborative Research on Addiction at NIH