Earlier this year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced new regulationsopens in new window restricting the sale of flavored e-cigarettes to teenagers. Here’s why.
20.8%
The percentage of U.S. high school students who used an e-cigarette in the past month in 2018, according to the National Youth Tobacco Surveyopens in new window. That’s up from 11.7% in 2017 and 1.5% in 2011.
4.9%
The percentage of middle school students who had used an e-cigarette within the past month in 2018, up from 3.3% in 2017 and 0.6% in 2011.
641%
The one-year increase in sales reported by JUUL Labs Inc., the leading manufacturer of e-cigarettes, between 2016 and 2017—from 2.2 million to 16.2 million devices.
