The number of 12th-graders who say they vape because they are “hooked” more than doubled since last year, according to the latest Monitoring the Future report.
With public health officials scrambling to understand a mysterious lung affliction linked to electronic cigarettes, a new survey of American teens suggests that the behavior tied to the deadly illness has spread at a historic rate.-graders acknowledged they had used an e-cigarette to “vape” marijuana at least once in the past month. That’s nearly double the figure from the year before, when 7.5% of high school seniors said they had vaped marijuana in the past 30 days.
The survey has inquired about drinking, smoking and illicit drug use for decades. In recent years, students have been asked about newer habits such as opioid abuse and vaping. The answers, provided anonymously, constitute a benchmark to detect how fast these trends grow and whether they are responding to public health initiatives.th--graders said they had tried vaping at least once.
The rapid embrace of electronic cigarettes by teens — a demographic that had virtually abandoned tobacco and for whom the purchase of vaping products is technically illegal — has reshaped the landscape of risk among American youth. It has revived an addiction to nicotine that was on the cusp of disappearing in their age group. And it may be escalating the use of marijuana, a drug already used at least once a month by roughly 1 in 5 high schoolers.
Medical researchers are uncertain about the long-term health effects of nicotine addiction on a fast-growing population of young users. And they’re unsure how much the vaping of marijuana is widening the use of a drug that’s linked to poor academic performance and worsening mental health.“But I don’t really want this generation of kids to be the ones where we find out,” said
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