E-Cigarette Use Among Middle and High School Students — United States, 2022

This data publication from the Institute of Social Research at the University of Michigan presents findings from Monitoring the Future, a long-term, annual study of substance use and related factors among U.S. adolescents, college students, and adult high school graduates. This publication summarizes findings about 8th, 10th, and 12th grade substance use in 2022. The 2022 overview reports that after the broad declines in substance use in 2021, lowered levels of usage continued for some drugs,…

This article from The Lancet estimates the prevalence of global smoking tobacco use and associated disease burden for 204 countries and territories. These estimates are intended to aid decision-makers as they implement national and international tobacco control interventions. In 2019, the authors estimate that 1.14 billion people were currently smoking tobacco products, consuming more than 7 trillion cigarette-equivalents of tobacco that year. While overall prevalence has decreased significantly since 1990 for both sexes, the total…

This article in The New York Times describes the policy background for the Trump administration’s partial flavor ban on e-cigarettes. It was originally conceived as a wider ban on the sale of most flavored e-cigarettes, a plan that motivated e-cigarette lobbies into action. In January 2020, the Trump administration announced a partial ban that would forbid the sale of most flavored e-cigarette cartridges, with an exception of menthol and tobacco flavors, as well as flavored…