Cigarette Smoking Down Among High School Students, Study Finds. Though some also report use of e-cigarettes

The Wall Street Journal reports:

Daily cigarette smoking has plummeted among high-school students, falling 50% or more over the past five years, according to a new government-sponsored study.

In the University of Michigan survey, backed by the National Institutes of Health, 3% of 10th-grade students reported smoking cigarettes daily, down from 6.6% five years ago. About 5.5% of 12th-graders said they smoked, down from 11% five years ago, and 1.3% of eighth-graders, down from 2.9%.

The percentage of 10th-graders who report daily use of marijuana is now higher than cigarette smoking, not because marijuana use is on the rise but because so many fewer students smoke cigarettes, said Dr. Nora Volkow. “The results are quite spectacular,” she said.

Tabby Block, a 17-year-old high school senior in San Francisco, said she can recall going to parties a few years ago and seeing many students smoking, but now only a tiny percentage of her classmates smoke daily and they are ostracized. “It seems stupid to do something that could give you cancer,” Ms. Block said. “It has a stigma.”

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