<story><title>Schools Struggle with Vaping Explosion</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/02/health/vaping-ecigarettes-addiction-teen.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheBeardKing</author><text>&amp;gt;The 2017 Monitoring the Future survey on adolescent drug use found that 11 percent of 12th graders, 8.5 percent of 10th graders and 3.5 percent of 8th graders had vaped nicotine in the previous 30 days. Of those high school seniors, 24 percent reported vaping daily, which the study defined as vaping on 20 or more occasions in the previous 30 days&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sorry, but is &amp;lt;10% of high schoolers an &amp;quot;explosion&amp;quot;? Obviously e-cigarettes are more appealing than tobacco products, but regular cigarette use was 15.8% in 2011 [1]. Marijuana use is at close to 6%, so not that big a gap from the apparent &amp;quot;explosion&amp;quot; of kids vaping.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cdc.gov&amp;#x2F;tobacco&amp;#x2F;data_statistics&amp;#x2F;fact_sheets&amp;#x2F;youth_data&amp;#x2F;tobacco_use&amp;#x2F;index.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cdc.gov&amp;#x2F;tobacco&amp;#x2F;data_statistics&amp;#x2F;fact_sheets&amp;#x2F;yout...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cbhl</author><text>Yes. That means that in a school of of 360 kids (30 students * 3 classes * 4 grades), ~36 of them are now nicotine users through vaping. You may as well dedicate an entire classroom to holding detention.&lt;p&gt;The US was slowly reducing the number of middle schoolers who smoke cigarettes. According to the CDC, cigarette use dropped from 4.3% in 2011 to 2.2% in 2016. [1]&lt;p&gt;This would be a 5x reversal in less than a year. That&amp;#x27;s huge.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cdc.gov&amp;#x2F;tobacco&amp;#x2F;data_statistics&amp;#x2F;fact_sheets&amp;#x2F;youth_data&amp;#x2F;tobacco_use&amp;#x2F;index.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cdc.gov&amp;#x2F;tobacco&amp;#x2F;data_statistics&amp;#x2F;fact_sheets&amp;#x2F;yout...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Schools Struggle with Vaping Explosion</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/02/health/vaping-ecigarettes-addiction-teen.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheBeardKing</author><text>&amp;gt;The 2017 Monitoring the Future survey on adolescent drug use found that 11 percent of 12th graders, 8.5 percent of 10th graders and 3.5 percent of 8th graders had vaped nicotine in the previous 30 days. Of those high school seniors, 24 percent reported vaping daily, which the study defined as vaping on 20 or more occasions in the previous 30 days&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sorry, but is &amp;lt;10% of high schoolers an &amp;quot;explosion&amp;quot;? Obviously e-cigarettes are more appealing than tobacco products, but regular cigarette use was 15.8% in 2011 [1]. Marijuana use is at close to 6%, so not that big a gap from the apparent &amp;quot;explosion&amp;quot; of kids vaping.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cdc.gov&amp;#x2F;tobacco&amp;#x2F;data_statistics&amp;#x2F;fact_sheets&amp;#x2F;youth_data&amp;#x2F;tobacco_use&amp;#x2F;index.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cdc.gov&amp;#x2F;tobacco&amp;#x2F;data_statistics&amp;#x2F;fact_sheets&amp;#x2F;yout...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gowld</author><text>&amp;gt; 8.0% reported in 2016 that they smoked cigarettes in the past 30 days—a decrease from 15.8% in 2011.&lt;p&gt;The CDC report doesn&amp;#x27;t report clearly on the overlap between modalities, but if e-cigarette uptake is cancelling all the  reductions in non-e-cigarettes, it&amp;#x27;s quite alarming that nicotine consumption isn&amp;#x27;t being reduced as previously though.</text></comment>