Nicotine vaping on rise among US teenagers-Survey While tobacco use has been effectively controlled among US teenagers, nicotine vaping has almost doubled among high school students from 11 per cent in 2017 to 20.9 in 2018 leading a large number back to nicotine use and addiction
While tobacco use has been effectively controlled among US teenagers, nicotine vaping has almost doubled among high school students from 11 per cent in 2017 to 20.9 in 2018 leading a large number back to nicotine use and addiction, a survey has found."Vaping is reversing hard-fought declines in the number of adolescents who use nicotine," said lead author Richard Miech, from the university's Institute for Social Research. "These results suggest that vaping is leading youth into nicotine use and nicotine addiction, not away from it," Miech added. The annual Monitoring the Future survey, by a team of researchers at the University of Michigan, showed that the increases in adolescent vaping from 2017 to 2018 have been the highest ever in the past 43 years for any substance use in the US.The percentage of Class 12 grade students who reported use of nicotine in the past 30 days significantly increased to 28.5 in 2018 from 23.7 in 2017.Nicotine use is indicated by any use of cigarettes, large cigars, flavoured or regular small cigars, hookah, smokeless tobacco, or a vaping device with nicotine. Marijuana vaping also increased in 2018 -- 13.1 per cent for 12th graders, up from 9.5 per cent last year.