SAN DIEGO—A University of California–San Diego (UCSD) study released on May 30 indicates a recent surge in young tobacco users in the United States, most of whom are vaping e-cigarettes on a daily basis.
In 2017, a 40 percent increase in U.S. e-cigarette sales, which UCSD says was driven by products manufactured by electronic cigarette company JUUL Lab, coincided with a notable increase in young daily smokers.
UCSD says more than 1 million American youths between the ages of 14 and 17 years old became daily tobacco users within two years of 2017. By 2019, more than three-quarters of those young smokers were vaping daily.
Study co-author and UCSD professor John Pearce said this is an unprecedentedly high rate of young people starting to smoke….