Assessment of a five-session school-based curriculum on student perceptions and intent to try e-cigarettes

Introduction Approximately one in three high school and one in ten middle school students are current tobacco users per national data in 2019. E-cigarettes are the most commonly used tobacco product by adolescents, with known health harms on the lungs, heart, blood vessels, brain and long-term effects from addiction. While educational school based curriculum are increasingly utilized with the goal of decreasing youth use of e-cigarettes, there have been limited studies on the impact of school-based educational curriculum on student perceptions and intent to …