Around 15 percent of ninth graders in Finland use e-cigarettes, according to findings of a school survey by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The respondents who said they used e-cigarettes said they had done so in the past 30 days.
However, e-cigarette use among youths is still less common in Finland than in the rest of Europe, where an average of around 20 percent of 15-year-olds reported that they vaped.
The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study found that e-cigarette use had outpaced that of traditional cigarettes among youths in Finland.
E-cigarette use was more common among boys (18%) than girls (13%), but the difference was not statistically significant, according to the study.
The survey also found that e-cigarette use has become more common among young people because vaping is increasingly appearing in media aimed at youths.
Meanwhile, around ten percent of ninth-graders in Finland use intoxicants or tobacco products.
The survey found that vaping, use of (the oral tobacco product) snus, cannabis and alcohol was more common among ninth-grade boys than girls in Finland. However, the differences between boys and girls use of such substances has narrowed since 2018.
The University of Jyväskylä was responsible for carrying out the WHO school survey in Finland.
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