Frequency of Use Among Middle and High School Student Tobacco Product Users — United States, 2015–2017

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• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Personal Author:
  Anic, Gabriella M. ; Sawdey, Michael D. ; Jamal, Ahmed ; Trivers, Katrina F.
• Description:
  Tobacco product use during adolescence increases the risk for lifelong nicotine addiction and immediate adverse health effects (1,2). During 2011-2017, current use of cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, and pipe tobacco decreased significantly among middle and high school students, but current use of e-cigarettes increased significantly from 1.5% to 11.7% (3). In 2017, an estimated 19.6% of high school students (2.95 million) and 5.6% of middle school students (0.67 million) were current users of any tobacco product; e-cigarettes were the most commonly used tobacco product for both middle (3.3%) and high (11.7%) school students (3). The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and CDC analyzed combined data from the 2015-2017 National Youth Tobacco Surveys (NYTS) to determine past 30-day (current) frequency of use of cigarettes, e-cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, and hookahs among U.S. high school and middle school students. During 2015-2017, the proportion of students currently using tobacco products who used a product for ≥20 of the past 30 days ranged from 14.0% of cigar smokers to 38.7% of smokeless tobacco users among high school students and from 13.1% of e-cigarette users to 24.5% of hookah smokers among middle school students. Among current users, use of two or more tobacco products ranged from 76.7% (e-cigarettes) to 90.9% (hookahs) among those using the product ≥20 of the preceding 30 days, from 68.0% (e-cigarettes) to 84.2% (hookahs) among those using the product for 6 to 19 of the preceding 30 days, and from 48.8% (e-cigarettes) to 77.2% (cigarettes) among those using the product for 1 to 5 of the preceding 30 days. Sustained implementation of proven tobacco control strategies focusing on all types of tobacco products, in coordination with the regulation of tobacco products by FDA, are needed to reduce tobacco product initiation and use among U.S. youths.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Child Cross-Sectional Studies Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Full Report Health Surveys Humans Schools Students Tobacco Products Tobacco Use

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• Source:
  MMWR Morbidity Mortal Weekly Rep. 67(49):1353-1357
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6749a1
• ISSN:
  0149-2195 (print) ; 1545-861X (digital)
• Pubmed ID:
  30543601
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6300076
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  5 pdf pages
• Volume:
  67
• Issue:
  49
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
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