Kids smoke significantly less tobacco and e-cigarettes
ATLANTA - Young people are smoking tobacco less than they have in a generation, a new study showed. A survey of U.S. high school and middle school students found that the decline in tobacco use stemmed from a drop in the number of kids using e-cigarettes, still the preferred product among youth, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study published Thursday. In 2024, 1 in 12 middle and high school students, or about 2.25 million youth, were estimated to have used a tobacco product in the last 30 days, compared to about 2.8 million children who said they smoked in 2023. The numbers were higher among high school students, 10% of whom said they regularly used tobacco products. Among middle school kids, 5% said they smoked tobacco. The decline in recent years is considerable given that when the National Youth Tobacco Survey first began in 1999, about one-third of high school students used tobacco products, and 10% of middle school students smoked, said Kristy Marynak, a senior science adviser…
17 Oct 00:00 · Inlandnewstoday