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