Are teens finally ditching vaping? New data show lowest levels in a decade

NBC News — Youth vaping levels fell to the lowest in a decade this year, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration.

E-cigarette use among middle and high school students dropped from 2.13 million students in 2023 to 1.63 million students in 2024, according to the National Youth Tobacco Survey, published Thursday.

The total is now about one-third of its 2019 peak, health officials said, when numbers totaled more than 5 million.

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