E-Cigarette Usage
President Trump’s Fiscal Year 2020 budget proposes that e-cigarette makers pay a fee to offset the cost of bringing down the number of teenagers who use them. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), e-cigarette use among teenagers increased from 1.5 percent of high school students to 20.8 percent between 2011 and 2018. A CDC fact sheet says that “in 2018, about two of every 100 middle school students (2.4 percent) and about 11 of every 100 high school students (11.3 percent) reported current use of two or more tobacco products in the past 30 days.” E-cigarettes…
