PORTSMOUTH — The youth vaping epidemic showed no signs of abating in 2019 with high school e-cigarette use increasing by 135 percent over the past two years. In New Hampshire, nearly a third of high school students use tobacco.
These are among the findings of this year’s “State of Tobacco Control” report from the American Lung Association, which calls for tobacco control policies to respond to the country’s worsening youth vaping epidemic.
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