The number of middle- and high-school students using vaping products fell by more than one quarter between 2015 and 2016, the latest National Youth Tobacco Survey shows.

Students responding they had used a tobacco product in the past 30 days fell by 800,000 to 3,9 million. E-cigarette users comprised 2.2 million of the total compared with 3 million in the 2015 survey; a drop of 27 per cent or 800,000 users, the Centres for Disease Control (CDC) said.
Among tobacco product users, the survey shows nearly half said they used multiple products. One-in-five high-school students (20.2 per cent) and 7.2 per cent of middle-school respondents said they used a tobacco product. The study is conducted by CDC and the Food and Drug Administration’s Centre for Tobacco Products.