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Flavored tobacco product use among middle and high school students—United States, 2014–2018

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The 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act prohibits the inclusion of characterizing flavors (e.g., candy or fruit) other than tobacco and menthol in cigarettes; however, characterizing flavors are not currently prohibited in other tobacco products at the federal level.*Flavored tobacco products can appeal to youths and young adults and influence initiation and establishment of tobacco-use patterns (1).The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and CDC analyzed data from the 2014-2018 National Youth Tobacco Surveys (NYTS) to determine prevalence of current (past 30-day) use of flavored tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), hookah tobacco, cigars, pipe tobacco, smokeless tobacco, bidis, and menthol cigarettes among U.S. middle school (grades 6-8) and high school (grades 9-12) students.In 2018, an estimated 3.15 million (64.1%) youth tobacco product users currently used one or more flavored tobacco products, compared with 3.26 million (70.0%) in 2014.Despite this overall decrease in use of flavored tobacco products, current use of flavored e-cigarettes increased among high school students during 2014-2018; among middle school students, current use of flavored e-cigarettes increased during 2015-2018, following a decrease during 2014-2015.During 2014-2018, current use of flavored hookah tobacco decreased among middle and high school students; current use of flavored smokeless tobacco, cigars, pipe tobacco, and menthol cigarettes decreased among high school students.Full implementation of comprehensive tobacco prevention and control strategies, coupled with regulation of tobacco products by FDA, can help prevent and reduce use of tobacco products, including flavored tobacco products, among U.S. youths (2,3).NYTS is an annual cross-sectional, school-based, selfadministered, pencil-and-paper questionnaire administered to U.S. middle and high school students.† A three-stage cluster sampling procedure was used to generate a nationally representative sample of U.S. students attending public or private schools in grades 6-12.This report uses data from five NYTS waves (2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)(2018).Sample sizes and response * Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act [Pub.L. No. 111-31, H.R.

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FIGURE Percentage of current tobacco product*,† users in high school and middle school who reported using flavored products during the preceding 30 days, by tobacco product — National Youth Tobacco Survey, United States, 2014–2018 * For 2014–2015, any tobacco is use of cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, e-cigarettes, hookahs, pipe tobacco, snus, or dissolvables on ≥1 day in the preceding 30 days. For 2016–2018, any tobacco is use of cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, e-cigarettes, hookahs, pipe tobacco, snus, dissolvables, or bidis on ≥1 day in the preceding 30 days. Exclusion of bidis from any tobacco use for 2016, 2017, and 2018 did not change the estimates. † Use of flavored bidis was only asked beginning in 2016, so estimates of flavored bidi use are not available for 2014–2015. For middle school estimates, use of flavored pipe tobacco and bidis are not shown because the individual estimates needed to be suppressed as a result of small sample size, relative standard error >30%, or both.
FIGURE Percentage of current tobacco product*,† users in high school and middle school who reported using flavored products during the preceding 30 days, by tobacco product — National Youth Tobacco Survey, United States, 2014–2018 * For 2014–2015, any tobacco is use of cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, e-cigarettes, hookahs, pipe tobacco, snus, or dissolvables on ≥1 day in the preceding 30 days. For 2016–2018, any tobacco is use of cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, e-cigarettes, hookahs, pipe tobacco, snus, dissolvables, or bidis on ≥1 day in the preceding 30 days. Exclusion of bidis from any tobacco use for 2016, 2017, and 2018 did not change the estimates. † Use of flavored bidis was only asked beginning in 2016, so estimates of flavored bidi use are not available for 2014–2015. For middle school estimates, use of flavored pipe tobacco and bidis are not shown because the individual estimates needed to be suppressed as a result of small sample size, relative standard error >30%, or both.CC BY · PubMed Central

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Authors
Cullen, K. A., Liu, S. T., Bernat, J. K., Slavit, W. I., Tynan, M. A., King, B. A., & Neff, L. J.
Affiliations
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
Corresponding author
Cullen, Karen A.
Venue
MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Published
2019-10-04
Volume
68
Issue
39
Pages
839-844
ISSN
  • 0149-2195 (ISSN-L)
  • 1545-861X
OpenAlex
W2978784026
Cited by
181
References
14
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FWCI
15.08
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
Keywords
flavored tobacco products, youth tobacco use, electronic cigarettes, hookah tobacco, menthol cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, smokeless tobacco, bidis, tobacco product regulation, Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, junior high school students, high school students, National Youth Tobacco Survey
MeSH terms
Smoking Prevention, Adolescent, Child, Female, Flavoring Agents, Health Surveys, Humans, Male, Schools, Students, Tobacco, Smokeless, United States, United States Food and Drug Administration, Prevalence, Tobacco Products, Tobacco Use, Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems

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