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Research Article
High school students’ use of JUUL pod flavors before and after JUUL implemented voluntary sales restrictions on certain flavors in 2018
Meghan E. Morean , Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America ⨯
Grace Kong, Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America ⨯
Deepa R. Camenga, Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Departments of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ The Monitoring the Future Survey (MTF) published today in
JAMA Pediatrics shows that nicotine vaping among youth remained high in 2020 with 22% of 10
th and 12
th graders using e-cigarettes in the last 30 days, essentially unchanged from 22.5% in 2019. These data are consistent with those from the National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) released in September 2020, that showed nearly 20% of high school students, one in five, use e-cigarettes underscoring that youth tobacco use remains at epidemic levels and much more needs to be done.
Both the NYTS and MTF surveys reinforce stronger federal policies must be put in place immediately that are clear, comprehensive, and consistently enforced with no loopholes. Ad hoc policy responses to date, like warning letters to vaping companies such as Puff Bar or partial flavors bans, have resulted in product substitution, failures to comply, and new illegal products continuing to en