E-cigarette use among youth offsets a long-term decline in the use of tobacco cigarettes, which is
at a historic low in the life of the study—now in its 40th year. In 2014, the prevalence of
smoking tobacco cigarettes in the past 30 days was 8 percent for students in 8th, 10th and 12th
grades combined. This is a significant decline from 10 percent in 2013, and is less than a third of
the most recent high of 28 percent in 1998