SCC VAPINGUK Vaping & Nicotine Evidence Observatory

Children & young people

Research evidence and prevalence are different things.

SCC Vaping keeps youth-focused literature separate from official survey estimates and retains survey, geography and demographic provenance.

Youth-tagged literature398
Synthesis-question candidates208
OHID youth records96
NHS structured records423

Official-data safeguards

OHID

Indicators include ever use and regular e-cigarette use among 15-year-olds. Geography and survey definitions remain attached.

NHS England

The structured 2023 youth dataset covers tables 4.2–4.6. Percentages and weighted/unweighted bases must not be mixed across definitions.

Interpretation

Prevalence describes reported use in a defined survey population. It does not by itself establish causes, health effects or trajectories.