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More than 1 in 4 high school students used a tobacco product or nicotine device in 2018, a sharp rise from 2017 driven by increasing use of e-cigarettes by youth. Current e-cigarette use increased nationally by 77 percent among high school students and 48 percent among middle school students during 2017-2018, erasing the prior year’s progress in reducing e-cigarette and tobacco product use. Because nicotine devices such as JUUL provide convenient, discreet and powerful doses of nicotine, young people are at special risk for lifelong addiction by using these products for even a short time. Nicotine exposure presents hazards to brain and nervous system development, and can lead to conventional tobacco smoking, the leading preventable cause of death and disease in Mississippi.
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