Zürcher Nachrichten - US e-cigarette sales jumped from 2020 to 2022

EUR -
AED 3.783858
AFN 73.247803
ALL 98.29896
AMD 411.791644
ANG 1.85648
AOA 941.071044
ARS 1068.032987
AUD 1.661771
AWG 1.856898
AZN 1.754557
BAM 1.955779
BBD 2.079878
BDT 125.66867
BGN 1.955426
BHD 0.388305
BIF 3046.890294
BMD 1.030179
BND 1.410144
BOB 7.117856
BRL 6.218784
BSD 1.030189
BTN 88.417206
BWP 14.437847
BYN 3.371064
BYR 20191.510294
BZD 2.069178
CAD 1.484199
CDF 2956.613501
CHF 0.939549
CLF 0.03758
CLP 1036.94761
CNY 7.553169
CNH 7.570565
COP 4462.880072
CRC 520.984371
CUC 1.030179
CUP 27.299746
CVE 110.262763
CZK 25.089702
DJF 183.438059
DKK 7.460727
DOP 63.178105
DZD 139.8471
EGP 52.083487
ERN 15.452686
ETB 129.585571
FJD 2.399751
FKP 0.815883
GBP 0.837265
GEL 2.925504
GGP 0.815883
GHS 15.193692
GIP 0.815883
GMD 73.653623
GNF 8905.819292
GTQ 7.949839
GYD 215.515627
HKD 8.016547
HNL 26.187469
HRK 7.389378
HTG 134.48466
HUF 413.723007
IDR 16668.555328
ILS 3.768488
IMP 0.815883
INR 88.487744
IQD 1349.385718
IRR 43357.681317
ISK 145.214283
JEP 0.815883
JMD 161.52829
JOD 0.73081
JPY 163.032007
KES 133.397619
KGS 89.625552
KHR 4160.834794
KMF 492.476527
KPW 927.160611
KRW 1504.009869
KWD 0.317573
KYD 0.858391
KZT 541.594268
LAK 22456.762319
LBP 92245.623677
LKR 303.516788
LRD 192.626091
LSL 19.446494
LTL 3.041851
LVL 0.623145
LYD 5.092946
MAD 10.36999
MDL 19.190797
MGA 4876.948383
MKD 61.529349
MMK 3345.981521
MNT 3500.548436
MOP 8.256013
MRU 40.936964
MUR 48.181224
MVR 15.863974
MWK 1786.181095
MXN 21.128912
MYR 4.630608
MZN 65.838555
NAD 19.446494
NGN 1594.191392
NIO 37.909231
NOK 11.735357
NPR 141.465756
NZD 1.840476
OMR 0.396595
PAB 1.030089
PEN 3.888659
PGK 4.129876
PHP 60.08625
PKR 287.24386
PLN 4.262371
PYG 8125.913996
QAR 3.755424
RON 4.974423
RSD 117.115907
RUB 105.338426
RWF 1431.67095
SAR 3.867643
SBD 8.686782
SCR 14.704987
SDG 619.137828
SEK 11.493749
SGD 1.409445
SHP 0.815883
SLE 23.493123
SLL 21602.343687
SOS 588.693769
SRD 36.118592
STD 21322.627377
SVC 9.012905
SYP 2588.356136
SZL 19.427794
THB 35.637992
TJS 11.258872
TMT 3.605627
TND 3.304533
TOP 2.412778
TRY 36.448581
TTD 6.992926
TWD 33.922248
TZS 2575.410642
UAH 43.673938
UGX 3809.922693
USD 1.030179
UYU 44.969088
UZS 13329.858917
VES 55.408134
VND 26140.794577
VUV 122.304926
WST 2.846166
XAF 655.94369
XAG 0.034039
XAU 0.000385
XCD 2.784111
XDR 0.793292
XOF 655.950057
XPF 119.331742
YER 256.722567
ZAR 19.508929
ZMK 9272.851496
ZMW 28.610697
ZWL 331.717249
  • BCC

    -0.8200

    117.4

    -0.7%

  • BCE

    -0.2300

    23.63

    -0.97%

  • SCS

    0.1000

    11.3

    +0.88%

  • RYCEF

    0.0200

    7.22

    +0.28%

  • RBGPF

    -2.6900

    59.31

    -4.54%

  • CMSD

    -0.0600

    23.4

    -0.26%

  • NGG

    -0.6200

    57.98

    -1.07%

  • JRI

    0.0000

    12.22

    0%

  • RIO

    0.4400

    58.63

    +0.75%

  • CMSC

    -0.1300

    23.1

    -0.56%

  • GSK

    -0.3400

    33.75

    -1.01%

  • RELX

    0.7900

    46.77

    +1.69%

  • AZN

    -0.0600

    66.58

    -0.09%

  • VOD

    -0.2000

    8.21

    -2.44%

  • BTI

    -0.0400

    36.74

    -0.11%

  • BP

    -0.7100

    31.12

    -2.28%

US e-cigarette sales jumped from 2020 to 2022
US e-cigarette sales jumped from 2020 to 2022 / Photo: JOEL SAGET - AFP/File

US e-cigarette sales jumped from 2020 to 2022

E-cigarette sales in the United States spiked between 2020 and 2022, especially among flavors that appeal to youth users, according to a study from health authorities released Thursday.

Text size:

Overall e-cigarette monthly unit sales went up nearly 47 percent from the start of 2020 to the end of 2022, a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found.

In January 2020, right before the Covid-19 pandemic reached the United States, 15.5 million e-cigarettes were sold, while 22.7 million units were sold in December 2022, the study said.

The hike was especially pronounced among sweet flavors favored by young users of e-cigarettes, also called vapes.

"After January 2020, sales of mint and other flavored prefilled cartridges ceased, and disposable e-cigarettes in fruit, sweet, and other flavors increased," the study, published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, showed.

"Disposable e-cigarettes in youth-appealing flavors are now more commonly sold than prefilled units," it noted.

E-cigarettes were introduced in the early 2000s as a less-harmful replacement for regular cigarettes, which are packed with cancer-causing chemicals.

But an emerging body of research has shown vapes can also be highly addictive, and often result in young users turning to cigarettes as a way to get their nicotine fix.

According to the CDC, youths and young adults tend to use e-cigarettes more than adults overall -- more than 14 percent of US high schoolers said they had vaped in the last month in 2022, while the year before that only 4.5 percent of all adults said they had.

"The tobacco industry is well aware that flavors appeal to and attract kids, and that young people are uniquely vulnerable to nicotine addiction," anti-smoking non-profit Truth Initiative chief Robin Koval said in a statement released by the CDC in response to Thursday's study.

"We all must work with even greater urgency to protect our nation's youth from all flavored e-cigarettes, including disposables," she added.

- Sales restrictions -

The two-year increase has come despite the US Food and Drug Administration's 2020 announcement that it would prioritize enforcing rules against unauthorized flavored vaping products, given their appeal to teenagers and children.

And though there was an overall jump over the nearly three-year period, sales did decline more than 12 percent between May and December 2022.

That may be at least partly explained by sales restrictions on flavored e-cigarettes, in place in seven states and hundreds of local municipalities by the end of last year, the study said.

According to the study, "States such as Massachusetts, which have well-enforced comprehensive flavor restrictions, have experienced large and sustained declines in total e-cigarette sales."

It also found that "use of tobacco products among young persons declined" after flavored tobacco products were restricted in certain areas.

Earlier this year, e-cigarette company Juul agreed to pay $462 million to six states and the District of Columbia to settle charges that it violated numerous laws in marketing tobacco products to youth.

Though e-cigarette use has increased in the United States in recent years, traditional cigarette smoking has reached an all-time low of about 11 percent among adults in 2022, according to CDC data released in April.

B.Brunner--NZN