Despite years of claims that vaping acts as a gateway to smoking, new results from the 2021 Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey indicate that not only has interest in vaping waned among youth, but regular combustible cigarette usage is growing even rarer. In the aftermath of Juul fever, the EVALI scare, Tobacco 21 passage at […]
Yale Study Finds That Vaping Flavors Help Adults Quit
Evidence collected over the last decade indicates that flavors are essential for adults looking to use vaping products to quit smoking. Indeed, a new study published finds flavored vapor products to be more effective than tobacco-flavored e-cigarettes in helping adults remain smoke-free. A new study published by JAMA Network Open examines the role of flavors […]
Most Young People Do Not Vape, and Even Fewer Vape Regularly
Fears of a Youth Vaping Epidemic May be Overblown, Finds NYU Analysis While youth vaping rates have increased in recent years, most middle and high school students don’t vape or smoke and very few vape or smoke daily, finds a study led by researchers at NYU School of Global Public Health. The study, published this month […]
Coalition Calls for the FDA to Release Its Data on Teen Vaping
Today, a coalition of fourteen nonprofit organizations representing both consumers and taxpayers sent a letter to FDA Acting Commissioner Norman Sharpless. This letter calls for the FDA to release the data from the 2019 National Youth Tobacco Survey before moving any further with the proposed ban on the sale of flavored vaping products. The letter can […]
Study: THC Vaping By College Students More Than Doubled From 2017 to 2018
Last week, the University of Michigan released a study finding past 30 day THC vaping by US college students more than doubled from 5.2% in 2017 to 10.9% in 2018. “This doubling in vaping marijuana among college students is one of the greatest one-year proportional increases we have seen among the multitude of substances we measure […]
