{"id":7304,"date":"2023-03-10T19:52:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T19:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7304"},"modified":"2023-03-10T19:52:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T19:52:13","slug":"quickstats-percentage-distribution-of-cigarette-smoking-status-among-current-adult-e-cigarette-users-by-age-group-national-health-interview-survey-united-states-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2023\/03\/10\/7304\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage Distribution of Cigarette Smoking Status Among Current Adult E-Cigarette Users, by Age Group \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7210a7.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/figures\/mm7210a7-F.gif?_=93247\" width=\"326\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2021, 4.5% of U.S. adults were current e-cigarette users.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Among adult e-cigarette users overall, 29.4% also were current cigarette smokers, 40.3% were former cigarette smokers, and 30.3% had never been cigarette smokers.<\/li>\n<li>Among e-cigarette users aged 18\u201324 years, 16.3% were current smokers, 22.3% were former smokers, and 61.4% had never been cigarette smokers.<\/li>\n<li>Among those aged 25\u201344 years, 30.6% were current smokers, 45.8% were former smokers, and 23.6% had never smoked cigarettes.<\/li>\n<li>Among those aged \u226545 years, 42.7% were current smokers, 50.1% were former smokers, and 7.2% had never smoked cigarettes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Younger e-cigarette users were more likely to have never smoked cigarettes, and older e-cigarette users were more likely to be current or former cigarette smokers.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2021.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis\/index.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, 4.5% of U.S. adults were current e-cigarette users. Among adult e-cigarette users overall, 29.4% also were current cigarette smokers, 40.3% were former cigarette smokers, and 30.3% had never been cigarette smokers. Among e-cigarette users aged 18\u201324 years, 16.3% were current smokers, 22.3% were former smokers, and 61.4% had never been cigarette smokers. Among<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62289,63673,53746,53752,10541],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7306,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7304\/revisions\/7306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}