The survey found that 1 in 3 high school students and around 1 in 8 middle school students are current tobacco users, meaning they had used the product at least once in the 30 days.
More than 6 million middle and high school students were currently using tobacco product in 2019, according to National Youth Tobacco Survey data released Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
How to convince, scare or bribe your kids not to vapeFor the sixth year in a row, e-cigarettes were the most commonly used tobacco product among high school and middle school students. More than 55% of students reported using e-cigarettes only. Other tobacco products used by students included cigars, cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, hookahs and pipe tobacco.More than 53% of high school students and more than 23% of middle school students reported ever trying a tobacco product.
A policy has not yet been announced."We are fully committed to preventing children from using harmful tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, and will continue to develop policies that will achieve that objective as soon as possible," acting FDA Commissioner Dr. Brett Giroir, HHS assistant secretary for health, said in a statement about the new report.CNN's Jacqueline Howard and Michael Nedelman contributed to this report.
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