teens who vape are more likely to start smoking cigarettes. Vaping has overtaken cigarettes as the dominant nicotine risk for young people. The 2025 Monitoring the Future survey of 24,000+ US students confirms what schools have been seeing for years: 31% of Teen Smoking Hits Another New

Nicotine replacement products, such as nicotine gum, patches, and lozenges, are available over-the-counter whereas nicotine nasal sprays, oral inhalers, bupropion, and varenicline are available by prescription only

These teens are not smokers trying to quit, Farley said, referencing the traditional argument made in favor of e-cigarettes

We use this weight measure because it is more exact

While these data provide useful physiological context, their applicability to adolescents should be interpreted with caution due to developmental differences in lung maturation and exercise capacity

For the overall sample, the total positive attitude score (maximum possible score = 35) had a mean of 19.22 (SD = 6.99)