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National survey finds youth smoking rate at record low 8 percent

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The federal government’s 2016 National Youth Tobacco survey determined that just 8 percent of ninth through 12th-graders smoked at least once over a 30-day period.

That’s down from 15.8 percent in 2011 and 9.3 percent in 2015. The rate was 28.5 percent when the survey debuted in 1999.
It sounds like the decline started before well before vaping really took off, but it would be cool to have the year-by-year data.

E-cig and vaporizer usage fell from a high of 16 percent in 2015 to 11.3 percent for 2016. That represented a reversal of a five-year trend of increased youth e-cig use.
That's a big drop! Sounds like vaping isn't "cool" anymore?
 

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