Flavored e-cigarettes are growing in popularity among students

New data from the CDC add to the evidence that flavored e-cigarettes are increasingly popular among youths. Two-thirds of high school and middle school students who are tobacco users said they also used a flavored product in the month prior to being surveyed. Around 65% of high schoolers in 2014 reported using flavored e-cigarettes, but that rose to nearly 68% last year. Among middle schoolers, those figures went from around 40% in 2015 to 52% in 2018.

In more e-cigarette news, the Federal Trade Commission yesterday sent letters to six vaping companies, including Juul, seeking information about their advertising and promotional methods. The CDC also issued updated figures for vaping-related illnesses: There are 1,080 confirmed and probable cases in 48 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and 18 people have died.