US High Schoolers’ E-Cigarette Use Plummets Amid FDA Crackdown

US teenagers’ e-cigarette use dropped by two-thirds over the past five years as health regulators cracked down on illegal sales and distribution of the addictive products.

About 1.6 million school children currently use the devices, just a third of the peak level in 2019, when the number was about 5 million, according to the annual National Youth Tobacco Survey of middle and high school students. Most of the decrease was among high school students, according to the US Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which released the findings Thursday.

Earlier this year, the ...