A young man smokes an e-cigarette at The Vaping Buddha on Jan. 23, 2018, in South San Francisco. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Vaping among high school students in the U.S. fell sharply from 2023 to 2024, a trend that was mirrored in Maryland but at a slower pace, according to health advocates and state officials.
Data released Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that about 1.63 million middle and high school students regularly used e-cigarettes this year, or 5.9% of students surveyed for the 2024 National Youth Tobacco Survey . That is about 500,000 kids fewer than the year before, when 2.13 million kids reported using e-cigarettes in the previous 30 days…