According to the Florida Youth Tobacco Survey, in 2021, only 12.6 percent of Florida high school students will report ever using combustible cigarettes, and only 32.2 percent have tried e-cigarettes. Among middle school students, 7.2% had tried combustible cigarettes and 16.2% had tried e-cigarettes.

Current use, defined as use of tobacco and/or vaping products at least once in the 30 days preceding the survey, also declined. Among high school students, only 1.7% reported current cigarette use and only 18.3% reported current vaping. Among middle school students, only 1% reported current cigarette use and 8% reported current e-cigarette use.

The decline in combustible cigarette use is significant. Since 2015, usage among high school students has dropped 45% from 22.9% in 2015, and current usage has dropped 75.4% from 6.9%. Among middle school students, current cigarette use has decreased by 30% since 2017. Not only were the results encouraging, but they proved that youth vaping product use did not lead to an increase in youth combustible cigarette use.

In addition, the number of teens vaping has dropped significantly. In 2019, 38.7% of Florida high school students reported ever using e-cigarettes, and 28.5% reported current e-cigarette use, the highest level ever recorded. From 2019 to 2021, once used vaping products by Florida high school students dropped 16.8%, and current use dropped 28.5%.

Likewise, middle school students had the highest rates of e-cigarette use in 2019, and those rates continue to decline. From 2019 to 2021, once use fell by 14.1%, and current e-cigarette use fell by 12.1%.

The drop in Florida is significant, further evidence that prohibition policies and excessive regulation and taxation are not necessary to discourage teen vaping use.

In the 2020 Legislative Session, Senate Bill 810 was introduced, which would prohibit the sale, delivery, bartering, offering or offering of flavored liquid nicotine products, etc. to any other person.

Fortunately for adults who use flavored e-cigarettes to quit smoking, Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed the legislation, noting that flavored e-cigarettes are a reduced-risk alternative to cigarettes and that the legislation will almost certainly lead to more people returning to smoking , which leads others to a dangerous black market.

As policymakers enter the legislative session, they must stay up-to-date with data on state youth tobacco and e-cigarette use and be wary of top-down ban policies that don't take this growing data that youth vaping appears to be. Peaking in 2019, youth combustible cigarette use is at its lowest level on record.

This is part of a series of state analysis blogs examining recent youth tobacco and vaping surveys.

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