Vaping has overtaken cigarettes as the dominant nicotine risk for young people. The 2025 Monitoring the Future survey of 24,000+ US students confirms what schools have been seeing for years: 31% of Chart: Vaping: intriguing but definitely not cool Statista Blown up in smoke: Young adults who vape at greater risk of COVID symptoms Harvard Health Vaping now more common than smoking among young people and the risks go beyond lung and brain damage Vaping persists among teens and young adults, despite declines in cigarette smoking. Swipe through for findings from our new report Compared to cigarette smoking, vaping was over three times more likely Which Smoking Habit Puts You Most at Risk?