Fact Sheet: Youth and Tobacco UseCDC's Office on Smoking
but our work is far from over,” said Deirdre Lawrence Kittner, the director of the CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health, in a statement. “Findings from this report underscore the threat that commercial tobacco product use poses to the health of our nation’s youth. It i...
“The skyrocketing growth of young people’s e-cigarette use over the past year threatens to erase progress made in reducing youth tobacco use. It’s putting a new generation at risk for nicotine addiction,” said CDC Director Robert R. Redfield, M.D. “Despite this troubling trend, we kno...
the real story here is the long overdue agency action on combustible tobacco products. Tobacco products possess different levels of risk and inhaling combusted tobacco smoke is the most dangerous tobacco use behavior. Indeed, combustible tobacco use, that is cigarettes and...
"Youth use of tobacco products in any form -- including e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches -- is unsafe,"Deirdre Lawrence Kittner, who directs the CDC's Office on Smoking and Health, said in the FDA news release. "It's essential that we remain vigilant and committed to public health effo...
s youth. Public health and medical professionals should be asking questions like “How did we get here?” and “How can we eliminate combustible tobacco use in young people?” The CDC report outlines some sound strategies like flavor bans and raising the ...
Tobacco Products at the FDA. “This progress is a testament to the relentless efforts by the FDA, CDC, and others, particularly over the past half decade. [However], we can’t rest on our laurels, as there’s still more work to do to further reduce youth e-cigarette use,”...
D America's youth is turning their back on tobacco. According to a study recently published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC), cigarette smoking among US high school students is at an all-time low. One in five US high school students in 2016 reported using a tobacco ...
Tobacco policiesYouth smokingRatingsMeasurementImportant questions remain regarding the effectiveness of local tobacco policies for preventing and reducing youth tobacco use and the relative importance of these policies. The aims of this paper are to: (1) compare policy effectiveness ratings provided by ...
According to the 2018 National Youth Tobacco Survey, released on Thursday by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 3.6 million of U.S. middle and high school students are currently using e-cigarettes, about 1.5 million more ...