Page 8 - Adressing Black-Market Vapor Products: A Toolkit for Law Enforcement and Community Leaders

The 2020 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS), Still, these numbers remain too high and more can
conducted by FDA and the Centers for Disease and needs to be done to accelerate the decline in
Prevention and Control (CDC), showed a decline in underage use of all tobacco products, including
underage use of vapor products. In 2019, 28% of high vapor. In addition to raising public awareness on
school students and 11% of middle school students the issues of black-market vapor products,
used vapor products. In 2020, 19.6% of high school dismantling the illicit trade is critical to ensure
students and 4.7% middle school students used vapor tobacco-control measures are not undermined, as
products. This amounted to 1.8 million fewer high well as to protect adult consumers from the
school and middle school students using vapor additional health and safety risks posed by such
products in 2020 compared to 2019. products.

Campaigns such as FDA’s The Real Cost and
V a p i n g A d d i c t i o n I s n ’ t P r e t t y | B a t h r o o m |
T h e R e a l C o s t C a m p a i g n
the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH)
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Smokefree Teen are resources for educational

materials that help raise awareness among
minors about the dangers of vaping.