E-Cigarette Use Among Youth and Young Adults: A Report of the Surgeon General - Healthy People 2030

About this resource:

HHS Non-systematic Review

Source: Office of the Surgeon General , 2016

Last Reviewed: 2016

This report highlights what we do and do not know about electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes). These products and the ways they are used change quickly, but the report looks at current knowledge and gaps in evidence, including:

Historical background
Patterns of use
Health effects
Effects of policy and practice

It ends with a call to action to speed up policies and programs that can reduce young people’s use of e-cigarettes.

Objectives related to this resource (7)

Reduce current tobacco use in adolescents — TU‑04

Getting worse

Reduce current e-cigarette use in adolescents — TU‑05

Little or no detectable change

Reduce current cigarette smoking in adolescents — TU‑06

Target met or exceeded

Reduce current cigar smoking in adolescents — TU‑07

Improving

Reduce current use of flavored tobacco products in adolescents who use tobacco — TU‑09

Baseline only

Reduce the proportion of adolescents exposed to tobacco marketing — TU‑22

Little or no detectable change

Reduce current use of smokeless tobacco products among adolescents — TU‑08

Target met or exceeded

Suggested Citation

U.S. Public Health Service, Office of the Surgeon General. (2016). E-cigarette use among youth and young adults: a report of the surgeon general. Retrieved from https://e-cigarettes.surgeongeneral.gov/documents/2016_SGR_Full_Report_non-508.pdf