An estimated 2.06 million U.S. center and highschool college students are utilizing electronic-cigarettes with Juul and Vuse among the many hottest merchandise, based on knowledge from a 2021 survey analyzed by well being officers.
The information, revealed on Thursday within the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, confirmed using the doubtless addictive nicotine gadgets might have declined from 3.6 million college students in 2020.
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Nevertheless, authors of the examine cautioned that estimates based mostly on this yr’s survey carried out largely on-line can’t be in comparison with outcomes from surveys finished in earlier years collected from lecture rooms.
Using e-cigarettes amongst kids and youths has been a rising public well being concern. Makers of the gadgets got here beneath the scrutiny of well being regulators for allegedly focusing on their advertising and marketing at youth and considerations {that a} new technology would grow to be hooked on nicotine.
Producers argue that the merchandise assist people who smoke give up.
Puff Bar, Vuse, SMOK and Juul have been among the many hottest e-cigarette manufacturers amongst present customers in excessive faculties, whereas Puff Bar and Juul have been hottest amongst center schoolers, based on the survey carried out from Jan. 18 to Could 21.
The U.S. Meals and Drug Administration earlier this month delayed its determination functions on whether or not Juul and different main producers, together with British American Tobacco Plc’s Vuse, can promote their merchandise in the US because it decides whether or not the merchandise present a web profit to public well being.
About 85% of youth e-cigarette customers general mentioned they used flavored merchandise with fruit, sweet, desserts, or different sweets being the preferred, the survey knowledge confirmed.
Amongst present center and highschool e-cigarette customers, essentially the most generally used machine kind was disposables, adopted by prefilled or refillable pods or cartridges and tanks or mod methods, the survey confirmed.
— Reporting by Manojna Maddipatla in Bengaluru
