Tobacco Product Use Among US Middle and High School Students — National Youth Tobacco Survey, 2024

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1. [1] Vaping cancer Risk

   Statistic

   7.8% of US high school students currently used e-cigarettes in 2024 (down from 10.0% in 2023); e-cigarettes remain the most-used tobacco product among US youths

   “"In 2024, current (previous 30-day) use of any tobacco product was reported by 10.1% of high school students (representing 1.58 million students) and 5.4% of middle school students (representing 640,000 students). [...] Among high school students, declines occurred in current use of any tobacco product (from 12.6% to 10.1%) and e-cigarettes (from 10.0% to 7.8%)."”

   Calculation notes

   Prevalence context, not a cancer rate. Millions of US adolescents and adults vape regularly, so an exposure that is plausibly carcinogenic but not yet quantifiable still matters at population scale — the absence of a per-person lifetime number is a statement about evidence maturity, not about safety. Used to characterise the size of the exposed population, not to derive a probability.
   

   Source date: 2024-10-17 · Accessed: 2026-06-20

2. [2] EVALI vaping hospitalization Risk

   Statistic

   7.8% of US high school students currently used e-cigarettes in 2024 (down from 10.0% in 2023; ~1.21 million students); e-cigarettes remained the most commonly used tobacco product among youth

   “"E-cigarettes were the most commonly used product (7.8%) among high school students. Among high school students, declines occurred in current use of any tobacco product (from 12.6% to 10.1%) and e-cigarettes (from 10.0% to 7.8%). Overall, current e-cigarette use decreased (from 1.56 million to 1.21 million) high school students from 2023 to 2024."”

   Calculation notes

   CDC NYTS 2024. Provides the current teen vaping prevalence denominator context (7.8% of high schoolers, ~1.21 million students). The decline from 10.0% (2023) to 7.8% (2024) — and the broader fall from the ~27% peak years earlier — confirms that the outbreak-era exposure scenario is no longer current. The current background EVALI rate among regulated nicotine vapers is substantially lower; the normalized rate reflects the outbreak-era THC-vaping scenario.
   

   Source date: 2024-10-17 · Accessed: 2026-05-04

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