{"id":54265,"date":"2022-11-08T10:45:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=54265"},"modified":"2022-11-08T11:01:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T19:01:50","slug":"teen-e-cig-addiction-more-intense-starting-younger-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=54265","title":{"rendered":"TEEN E-CIG ADDICTION MORE INTENSE, STARTING YOUNGER: REPORT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between 2014 and 2021, the age at which adolescents first began using e-cigarettes dropped by nearly 2 months per calendar year while the age of initiation for other tobacco products remained the same.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, intensity of e-cigarette use and addiction increased so that by 2019, more e-cigarette users were using a tobacco product within five minutes of waking up compared with cigarette smokers and all other tobacco product users combined.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tenfold:\u00a0<\/strong>Between 2014 and 2017, less than 1 percent of e-cigarette users reported using the devices within five minutes of waking up, while by 2021 the total grew to 10.3 percent.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Overall, between 2014 and 2021, adolescent e-cigarette addiction surpassed that for all other forms of tobacco products combined.<\/li>\n<li>The results are based on a survey of 151,000 students in grades six to 12 with an average age of 15. Findings were published in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/29622745.4109\/aHR0cHM6Ly9qYW1hbmV0d29yay5jb20vam91cm5hbHMvamFtYW5ldHdvcmtvcGVuL2Z1bGxhcnRpY2xlLzI3OTgxMzA_JmVtYWlsPWIwYmVmYjJkYWZjZTNhODdlN2YxMzZiYjA2NTRkZjA1M2Y4NDUzYWMmZW1haWxhPTFhMjc1N2UzNTgwMDFiYTI2MzE4YjAyYjg2ZjQxMzExJmVtYWlsYj1jMWI1ODkxZWM4MmRlMDlkYmNmOTczYWQ0OTU0NjAzMmVjZTc5NTBmYjNhN2U3Y2E4NmRkOWNmY2NhYmU2OWI4JnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9U2FpbHRocnUmdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249MTEuMDcuMjIlMjBFTSUyMFRoZSUyMEhpbGwlMjAtJTIwSGVhbHRoJTIwQ2FyZQ\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB91430ec0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/29622745.4109\/aHR0cHM6Ly9qYW1hbmV0d29yay5jb20vam91cm5hbHMvamFtYW5ldHdvcmtvcGVuL2Z1bGxhcnRpY2xlLzI3OTgxMzA_JmVtYWlsPWIwYmVmYjJkYWZjZTNhODdlN2YxMzZiYjA2NTRkZjA1M2Y4NDUzYWMmZW1haWxhPTFhMjc1N2UzNTgwMDFiYTI2MzE4YjAyYjg2ZjQxMzExJmVtYWlsYj1jMWI1ODkxZWM4MmRlMDlkYmNmOTczYWQ0OTU0NjAzMmVjZTc5NTBmYjNhN2U3Y2E4NmRkOWNmY2NhYmU2OWI4JnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9U2FpbHRocnUmdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249MTEuMDcuMjIlMjBFTSUyMFRoZSUyMEhpbGwlMjAtJTIwSGVhbHRoJTIwQ2FyZQ\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB91430ec0&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1667950090121000&amp;usg=AOvVaw29UXznVknNZ-c2XJrWLRia\">Journal of the American Medical Association<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>However, despite the current findings, trends show fewer teens overall are using e-cigarettes. In 2019, it was estimated around 5.3 million middle and high-schoolers used the products; that total fell to 2.1 million in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between 2014 and 2021, the age&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54266,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54265\/revisions\/54266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}