U.S. Teens Aren’t Just Vaping Nicotine. Marijuana Use Is Also on the Rise
When U.S. health officials talk about the youth vaping epidemic, they’re mostly talking about the millions of teenagers who use products likee-cigarettes to vape nicotine. But new federal data show that marijuana vaping is also on the rise among the nation’s teenagers.
Almost 21% of U.S. high school seniors said they had vaped marijuana in 2019, while 14% had done so in the past month and 3.5% said they did so every day, according to the annual Monitoring the Future Survey conducted by the University of Michigan on behalf of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The, and, like the rest of the data, were based on information from 42,500 eighth, 10th and 12th graders in public and private schools nationwide.
The jump in past-month marijuana vaping—from 7.5% in 2018 to 14% this year among 12th graders—was the second-largest one-year increase ever recorded by the survey, behind only the from 2017 to 2018. But the 36% of seniors who said they had used marijuana in some form in 2019 was roughly the same as last year, suggesting that vaping is replacing smoking for some teens.
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