Youth Tobacco Survey Shows Good News, Suggests Work Ahead

New research found that e-cigarette use is falling among high-schoolers but more middle-school students are using tobacco products, and the authors called for sustained work through health care interventions and other efforts. “Given the negative health consequences of tobacco use and the unique harms associated with adolescent nicotine exposure, prevention of tobacco use by youths is imperative,” the authors wrote in the report, published Nov. 3 in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Based on the ways youth use tobacco products, they suggested, this could include price increases, smoke-free policies that cover e-cigarettes and clinical interventions.