Examining current E-cigarette use among U.S. adults by groups stratified by demographic characteristics, 2014–2023
Elizabeth L Seaman Jones, Jamie Cordova, Margaret Mahoney, Kristy Marynak, Jeremy Morton · 2026
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Seaman Jones and colleagues track a decade of vaping in the United States using the Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey, comparing 2014-2015 with two later waves. Their 2026 repeated cross-sectional analysis adjusts for demographics to obtain nationally representative estimates of current e-cigarette use across sex, age, race, region, and education groups.
Adult vaping held steady across the first two waves, then rose significantly by 2022-2023, reaching a little over three percent of adults in the adjusted estimate. Growth was broad: Black and Hispanic adults each saw increases of well over half relative to their starting rates, though their absolute levels stayed below those of White adults. The user profile changed character too, since the share of vapers who had never smoked cigarettes climbed steeply. By the last wave they were roughly a third of adult vapers and two thirds of young adult vapers.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Elizabeth L Seaman Jones, Jamie Cordova, Margaret Mahoney, Kristy Marynak, Jeremy Morton |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |