Teen smoking has virtually died out. This once unimaginable fact appears in the Centers for Disease Control’s report from the 2024 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS). According to the survey, only 1.7 percent of high school students were current smokers (i.e., they had smoked on one day or more in the past month). In 2016, the rate was 8.3 percent, five-fold higher.
Champagne should be flowing. Yet no one, not the CDC, the Food and Drug Administration, the surgeon general, nor any member of the rest of the anti-smoking public health community, has issued a celebratory press release. Why?
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