But while vaping is far more popular among young Americans than it was a decade ago, the numerous anti-vaping campaigns by public health officials may be working. The fact is that while getting behind marijuana legalization may be a winning political issue, the opposite may be true for vaping.
Take a look at the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nearly a third of high schoolers in 2021 (29%) said they had tried vaping nicotine. More than 1 in 10 (11%) admitted to doing so in the past month.
Back in 2011, just 2% of all high schoolers said they had vaped in the past 30 days. This may seem like a massive jump, but it also hides a massive decline.
Vaping among teenagers climbed rapidly during much of the past decade. It peaked in 2019 with 28% of high schoolers saying they had vaped in the past month. That dropped to 20% in 2020 and 11% last year. This is a dramatic decline and well outside any margin of error. …
The latest Gallup polling shows that Americans are twice as likely to regularly smoke marijuana at least once a week (16%) as they are to vape (8%). And while vaping has shown no real uptick in popularity in more recent years, more people are regularly smoking marijuana than ever before.
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