Sec. 2. Findings

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Congress finds the following: High school e-cigarette use increased by 135 percent between 2017 and 2019. Middle school e-cigarette use increased by approximately 218 percent between 2017 and 2019. Results from the National Youth Tobacco Survey of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (in this section referred to as CDC ) and the Food and Drug Administration (in this section referred to as FDA ) published in December 2019 show that 27.5 percent of high school students and 10.5 percent of middle school students reported using an e-cigarette in the previous 30 days, up from 20.8 percent and 4.9 percent, respectively, in 2018.

In 2019, more than one-third (34.2 percent) of high school e-cigarette users reported using e-cigarette products frequently, on 20 to 30 days in the past month. The CDC, the FDA, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Surgeon General, and various State and local health authorities have determined the skyrocketing e-cigarette use amongst American youth to be an epidemic . According to the CDC, the use of nicotine among adolescents can be detrimental to memory making, learning, and behavior, and e-cigarette use has been linked to lung conditions and mysterious illness.

According to data from the FDA's Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study, youth e-cigarette use is associated with more than four times the odds of trying cigarettes and nearly three times the odds of current cigarette use. The CDC and FDA continue to reiterate that the use of any tobacco product, including e-cigarettes, is unsafe for young people.