E-cigarettes increasingly popular in US schools
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ABOUT 2 million high school pupils in the United States tried e-cigarettes last year, a threefold rise in just a year, health authorities said.
The survey by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that 13.4 percent of high school pupils said they had smoked an e-cigarette in the past month, up from 4.5 percent in 2013.
In middle school, about 3.9 percent (450,000 pupils) said they had tried vaping in the past month, up from 1.1 percent in 2013, the poll said.
Some health experts are concerned about the rising popularity of the devices, which contain liquid nicotine cartridges that are flavored like candy and fruit.
“We want parents to know that nicotine is dangerous for kids at any age,” said CDC director Tom Frieden.
“Nicotine exposure at a young age may cause lasting harm to brain development,” he said.
The report marked the first time since 2011 — when researchers began collecting data — that “current e-cigarette use has surpassed current use of every other tobacco product.”
Meanwhile, there was no decline in overall tobacco use among middle or high school students.
A yearlong study by the University of California of 1,000 adult smokers found that e-cigarette users were less likely to cut down on cigarettes than smokers who didn’t use the devices.
“Smokers who used e-cigarettes were 49 percent less likely to decrease cigarette use and 59 percent less likely to quit smoking compared to smokers who never used e-cigarettes,” it said.
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