Nearly 2 million fewer US teens are vaping now than last year, the data show CDC

Nearly 2 million fewer US teens report on e-cigarettes in 2020 compared to 2019, according to new data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) disease. “The use of e-cigarette youth remains an epidemic,” CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said in a statement released Wednesday, but the drop is dramatic minor vaping. About 20% of students in US high schools and 5% of collegial who were in the 2020 National Youth Tobacco Survey respondents an e-cigarette in the last 30 days used, compared to 27.5% and 10, 5% in 2019. This means about 3.6 million young people are now users of current e-cigarette, representing 5.4 million last year. The news comes are required to submit for approval, after years of stagnation regulatory e-cigarette manufacturers applications to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the same day. The FDA won to regulate e-cigarettes in 2016. At this point, the agency companies requested authorization was necessary before new products for sale, but the producers have had on the market before 2016 e-cigarettes the ability, not They had to submit applications for their products until now. Company E-cigarettes are in applications must demonstrate that the potential benefits to public health of their products, that is, if the product exceeds Guide Changing the cigarette smoke to a cons less risky, as new and underage users hooked. If fewer young people are steaming, e-cigarette manufacturers can make it easier, the FDA have deceived their products are favorable. E-Cigarette companies were originally their applications must be submitted in May this year, but the date was postponed because of the crown pandemic. Pandemics may also partly explain why fewer young vaping; Young people during lockdowns at school or at social events can not primarily vaped also have access to these products. In addition, anecdotal reports indicate some people have been led by recently published studies finish vaping propose a risk the user to have a severe case of COVID-19 might increase. Studies have also, who last year broke out vaping lung disease related to an increase in humans, although health officials finally called illegal THC vaping products instead of nicotine and cigarette-related diseases try to finish results still shown. Pod-based e-cigarettes as the market leaders Juul Labs, e-cigarettes are still the most frequently used among young people, according to new data to the CDC. (Juul presented its 125,000 pages application of the FDA in July). But cigarettes cheap, disposable, like the leaps and bounds of Puff Bar in popularity. More said than a quarter of users of e-cigarette high school using disposable products in 2020, compared to only about 2% last year. The FDA ordered Puff bar their products from the market in July to remove since they were introduced after the FDA began in 2016 regulating e-cigarettes a year, but do not apply for the adoption agency in advance . But as a class, disposable products are not heavily regulated by the FDA. The agency in January to ban the sale of fruity or sweet mint flavors for e-liquids pod-based cigarette, but the policy has not disposable products, which were not as cartridge devices like Juul so popular right now . “The evidence could not be clearer,” the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids president Matthew Myers said in a statement. “As long as non-flavored e-cigarettes remain on the market, children can get their hands on them, and we will not solve this crisis.”
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