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. 2019 Jan 4;9:100159. doi: 10.1016/j.abrep.2019.100159

Table 1.

Past 30-day vaping and tobacco prevalence among U.S. 12th grade students, 2017 (95% confidence intervals in parentheses), n = 2231.

30-Day prevalence
Estimates of total nicotine use
Any nicotine use or nicotine vaping 24.7
(21.8–27.5)
Any nicotine use or vaping any substance 28.4
(25.5–31.4)



Type of user
Vape only non-nicotine, no other tobacco products 3.8
(2.8–4.8)
No vaping or tobacco use 71.6
(68.6–74.5)



Specific product
Vape any substancea 19.0
(16.2–21.8)
Vape nicotine 12.7
(10.4–15.0)
Smoke cigarettes 9.6
(7.8–11.5)
Smoke large cigars, small cigars, and/or cigarillos 13.0
(10.9–15.1)
Use smokeless tobacco 4.7
(3.2–6.2)
Smoke hookah 6.2
(4.4–8.0)

Note: Due to rounding, the size of the non-nicotine user group that vapes is 3.8% when estimated alone and 3.7% when calculated as the difference between the two overall nicotine use estimates (28.4–24.7 = 3.7).

a

This measure indicates vaping of nicotine, ‘just flavoring’, and/or marijuana.