One and a half million more US youngsters smoked e-cigarettes last year than a year before

One and a half million more American youngsters smoked e-cigarettes in 2018 than in the previous year.

Almost 4.9 million US teenagers used e-cigarettes last year with – the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced.

CDC’s Director Robert Redfield stressed to journalists: “The escalation in the use of e-cigarettes by young people is threatening to eradicate our previous efforts to reduce smoking”. (MTI, Járai Judit)