More Than a Quarter-million Youth Who Had Never Smoked a Cigarette Used E-cigarettes in 2013

by Gary Kopycinski on August 25, 2014

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Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–August 25, 2014. More than a quarter of a million youth who had never smoked a cigarette used electronic cigarettes in 2013, according to a CDC study published in the journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research. This number reflects a three-fold increase, from about 79,000 in 2011, to more than 263,000 in 2013.