According to overseas e-cigarette media Vaping360, after the 2021 U.S. National Youth Tobacco Survey showed a sharp drop in the number of teens vaping, officials from the government agency conducting the annual NYTS went out of their way to explain that the results were not credible because half of the students accepted it from the Internet. investigation. at home, not at school.

What will the CDC and FDA Centers for Tobacco Products (CTP) use as an excuse this year because the total number of school-age e-cigarette users has barely increased from 2021. High school and middle school vaping in 2022 is still well below 2020 levels, which in itself is a 29% drop from the 2019 peak teen vaping.

In fact, a lower percentage of high school students in 2022 reporting vaping in the past 30 days (14.1% vs. 15%) compared to the group of students surveyed in school settings in 2021.

We know this because the CDC was kind enough to include a note in last year's initial release explaining that more students were surveyed in classrooms than at home.

In 2019, 19.6% of middle school students used e-cigarettes at least once in the past 30 days. This year's overall figure was 9.4%, and after three years of results from the 2019 NYTS, it's clear that 2019 was an anomalous year that may represent a fad beyond normal levels of nicotine product use.

Preliminary findings from the 2022 NYTS were published today in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The survey, a joint effort of the CDC and FDA, surveyed U.S. middle school (grades 6-8) and high school (grades 9-12) students between January 18 and May 31 of this year. Full results will be announced around the end of the year.

School-age e-cigarette use has decreased by 51% since 2019

Have you noticed that fact sheets on vaping shared with parents in school and local newspaper editorials continue to use 2019 New York Times results to illustrate the teen vaping epidemic, rather than recent and reliable results? This happens frequently for one simple reason: After 2019, e-cigarette use among middle and high school students has dropped significantly.

Since 2019, high school vaping has fallen by nearly half (from 27.5% in 2019 to 14.1%) and middle school vaping by more than two-thirds (from 10.5% to 3.3%). Since 2019, the overall decline in past 30-day vaping among students in grades 6-12 was 51% (19.6% to 9.4%).

Daily usage is still low. By 2022, only 2.59% of students reported using e-cigarettes in the past 30 days, and 3.98% reported using e-cigarettes in the 20-30 days. About 4% of students (40.6% of e-cigarette users) reported using e-cigarettes only 1-5 days in the past 30 days. Of course, 90.6% of students don't vape at all.

That's not the story the FDA and CDC chose to tell, though. Instead, they said they were concerned about the results and believed that flavored vaping products were often the leading cause of teen vaping. The FDA has yet to authorize any vaping product flavored other than tobacco — not even menthol.

"U.S. youth e-cigarette use remains at worrisome levels and poses a serious public health risk to our nation's youth," CTP Director Brian King said in a release. "Together with the CDC, protecting our nation's youth from tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, remains one of the FDA's highest priorities, and we are committed to addressing this issue within our regulatory agency."

Amanda Wheeler, president of American Vapor Makers, responds to Kim and the CDC. "We'll never fix the problem until the CDC starts to be honest with the data."

Flavors and Devices: Fruity Disposables Stay Ahead

It should come as no surprise to anyone that about 85% of school-age e-cigarette users said they had used a flavor other than tobacco in the past 30 days. Flavor is the first choice for e-cigarette users of all ages, and flavor products occupy almost all e-cigarette shelf space in stores that sell e-cigarettes.

Minors aren't picky; they're likely to use whatever they can because they're at least three years away from legally buying vaping products. This is illustrated by the fact that 5.7% of NYTS participants did not know if they had ever used a flavor other than tobacco.

Deirdre Lawrence Kittner, director of the CDC's Office of Smoking and Health, said: "This study shows that our nation's youth continue to be attracted and captivated by the growing number of e-cigarette brands that offer flavored nicotine.

But even in 2019, most teenage vapers said flavor wasn't particularly important to them. In the year with the highest number of teens vaping, only 22.3% of NYTS participants chose flavor as their reason for vaping (they could choose multiple reasons). The biggest reason (56.1%) was curiosity.

Maybe kids will use flavors, since tobacco-flavored single-use e-cigarettes are almost non-existent, and single-use e-cigarettes have actually taken over the market — for teens, anyway.

A whopping 55.3% of the children surveyed used disposables – more than double the number of used e-cigarettes (25.2%). Almost twice as many (12.8%) did not know what mods and tanks they smoked were used (6.7%). Preference for disposables has doubled since 2020 in The New York Times (26.5%).

Brands that were "not listed" in the CDC's selection for survey participants completed at 32.2 percent -- slightly more than 28.3 percent uncertain/don't know.

But 99.9 percent of the FDA's Marketing Denial Orders (MDOs) and enforcement actions are aimed at products intended for refit and open, not the ubiquitous disposables that now dominate the convenience store segment of the vaping product market.

Among brands, puff bar again leads the pack, with 29.7% claiming to have used it in the past 30 days. "I say claiming because the brand is also used by some as a generic name for stick-shaped disposables.) Vuse, Juul and SMOK are in the top four, but there aren't enough high schools for those specifying they only use one or two brands The life name Juul was registered in the investigation.

Brands not listed in the CDC's options for survey participants completed at 32.2% -- slightly higher than the 28.3% Unsure/Don't know.

How long can tobacco control activists and our federal health agencies maintain the claim that e-cigarettes are addicting to a new generation when large numbers of users don't know the brand or type of product they've used, without even knowing for sure if it contains a non-tobacco flavor?

Again no preliminary findings on smoking

For the third year in a row, the CDC decided not to include preliminary findings on smoking in its earlier report, which may mean that smoking has not increased substantially. (If there was, they would mention it and blame it on vaping in some way.)

Last year, we found - five months after the initial results - that school-age smoking (again) fell to its lowest level ever, with only 1.5% of middle and high school students using cigarettes in the past 30 days. Last year, about every 250 One in high school students smokes daily or nearly every day.

Smoking among school-age children has almost disappeared. But CDC and FDA officials were careful to avoid giving it any credit.

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