Teens Are Vaping In Record Numbers; What Are The Parents Doing About It?
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An alarming new study confirms what many parents already know: Teens are vaping at alarming rates.
The director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and researchers at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, who led the 2018 Monitoring the Future survey, announced Monday that nicotine-vaping rates have nearly doubled among high school seniors, with 20.9 percent of seniors saying they’ve vaped nicotine during the past 30 days — up from 11 percent in 2017. The MTF survey has been tracking substance use among teenagers since 1975. This year, they polled 44,482 eighth-, 10th- and 12th-graders from 392 public and private schools.
Even more alarming, the trend has trickled down to middle schoolers, with 10.9 percent of eighth-graders saying they’ve also used e-cigarettes in the past year, according to the study.
Vaporizer use of any substance, including cannabis and things such as vitamins, has increased among all teenagers as well.
WIBC host Tony Katz invited parents to call into his afternoon show Tuesday to discuss how they’re addressing the issue with their teens, and the phones lit up! Click the link below to hear what they had to say:
