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E-cig use triples among US teens in 1 year

Survey also finds hookah use nearly doubling in a year

Published Fri, Apr 17, 2015 · 09:50 PM
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SOME two million US high school students tried e-cigarettes last year, a rate that tripled in just one year, US health authorities said on Thursday.

The 2014 survey by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 13.4 per cent of high school students said they had smoked an e-cigarette in the past month, up from 4.5 per cent from 2013.

In middle school, some 3.9 per c…

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