The number of teens who reported using tobacco products declined from 4.5 million to 3.6 million from 2011 to 2017 [...] You might think that health activists and their allies in the press would be celebrating this reality. You would be wrong. Many activists have chosen to simply ignore the large declines in tobacco and e-cigarette use, pointing instead to the availability of flavored e-cigarette products and the rise of independent competitors to Big Tobacco like Juul.