date:Nov 16, 2018
taxes and smoking bans for most of the decline in the adult rate. But some say adult smokers switching to e-cigarettes have also helped drive down the rate in recent years.
The cigarette smoking rate is even lower among high school students -- about 9 percent, according to the latest figures.
But e-cigarette use jumped 78 percent this year in high school kids and 48 percent among middle school kids, Gottlieb said, citing new survey data.
The FDA has been taken earlier steps to investigate the