Since 2013, Utah youth experimentation with and use of e-cigarettes has more than doubled. After years of consistent declines in teenage smoking rates, nicotine use among young people has sharply increased due to the rise in popularity of the e-cigarette.
The new foes — electronic cigarettes and products such as JUUL — are luring millions of middle and high school students into nicotine addiction, and the Surgeon General has even gone so far as to call the rising use among teens a national epidemic.
E-cigarettes deliver nicotine through an aerosol, often referred to as vapor, which contains varying amounts of toxic chemicals that have been linked to cancer, as well as to respiratory and heart disease.