![]() 9 While the research regarding the safety and efficacy of e-cigarettes as cessation aids remains in early stages, it is clear that these products are gaining popularity regardless of what long-term effects eventually demonstrate.Īlthough there is increasing attention to the prevalence of new and emerging products in the civilian population, remarkably little is known about the current prevalence of these products in military populations. ![]() Similar to new and emerging tobacco products, the prevalence of electronic cigarette (“e-cigarettes”) use has quadrupled among adults in the United States between 2009 (0.6%) to 2010 (2.7%), 8 and doubled among high school students in the United States from 2011 (4.7%) to 2012 (10.0%). 4–7 Findings from the National Adult Tobacco Survey show that across all age groups, 21.3% of US adults reported current use of a TNCP. Recent data suggest that hookah (also referred to as a waterpipe, shisha, narghile, kalian, and hubble-bubble) use among US college students ranges from 22% to 40%. 1 Although cigarette smoking remains the most commonly used tobacco and nicotine containing product (TNCP) in the United States (18% of all adults are current smokers), 2, 3 other TNCPs are becoming increasingly popular. ![]() Tobacco has been the leading cause of preventable death in the United States for over 50 years and is responsible for nearly half a million deaths annually.
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