- The number of teenagers using e-cigarettes has increased by 500,000 this year, as more than 2.5 million middle and high school students have admitted to using the devices in the past 30 days.
- “This study shows that our nation’s youth continue to be enticed and hooked by an expanding variety of e-cigarette brands delivering flavored nicotine,” Deirdre Lawrence Kittner, director of CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health, said in a statement.
- More than 1 in 4 teens use e-cigarettes daily, and more than 4 in 10 used them in 20 of the past 30 days.