Survey: The number of U.S. adolescents using e-cigarettes will sharply decrease in 2020

　　U.S. teenagers use e-cigarettes drastically reduced

　　China News Agency, Houston, September 9th. A survey report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the 9th showed that in 2020, the number of American teenagers (students) using e-cigarettes has drastically reduced.

　　According to the report, from January 16 to March 16, 2020, the CDC conducted a nationwide survey.

The survey results show that the number of teenagers (students) using e-cigarettes has decreased by about 1.8 million compared with 2019.

According to the report, about 3.02 million high school students and 550,000 junior high school students this year said they had used e-cigarettes in the past 30 days.

The results of the 2019 survey showed that about 4.11 million high school students and 1.24 million junior high school students in the United States indicated that they had used e-cigarettes in the past 30 days.

　　The Wall Street Journal reported that e-cigarettes have been popular among American teenagers since 2016, mainly because e-cigarette companies have launched flavor-containing products that are sought after by minors.

　　In March 2019, the CDC published an article warning that the use of e-cigarettes or electronic nebulizer products can cause lung damage.

CDC statistics show that as of mid-February 2020, 68 people in the United States have died from using electronic cigarettes, and more than 2,800 people have lung damage.

　　The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reviewing the products of all e-cigarette manufacturers in the United States, and e-cigarette companies must prove that their products help smokers reduce or stop using cigarettes and other tobacco products.

The FDA announced in February this year that it would ban the sale of fruit flavors for electronic cigarettes in the US market.

　　It is worth mentioning that at present, e-cigarette giant Juul is facing the dilemma of declining sales and loss of market share.

The company said last week that it plans to lay off half of its employees.

　　According to the Associated Press, the sales of e-cigarettes in the United States declined in August.

CDC expert Brian King believes that the spread of the new crown epidemic may have a certain inhibitory effect on teenagers' use of e-cigarettes.

A research report published by Stanford University on August 11 stated that young people who had only smoked e-cigarettes were at risk of contracting new coronary pneumonia five times that of non-smokers, and that the risk of infection from both traditional tobacco and e-cigarettes was that of non-smokers7 Times.

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