Alabamians like to vape – more so than almost every other state in the nation.

More than 9% of Alabama residents said they are current e-cigarette users in 2021, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Only two states – Oklahoma and Kentucky – recorded a higher percentage.

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Another 4.4% of Alabamians said they vape every single day – again placing Alabama third in the nation, behind only Oklahoma and Tennessee.

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Vaping has increased significantly in Alabama since 2016, the first year for which the CDC has data on the subject. The rise comes as the number of Alabamians – and Americans in general – who smoke cigarettes has dropped. In Alabama, more than 17% of respondents said they are current cigarette smokers in 2021, down from nearly 25% in 2011. However, the number of people who now vape is enough to offset those changes.

And even with the decline, Alabama still ranks 10th nationally in current smokers. And about 12.5% of respondents said they smoked every day, which ranked 12th in the nation, per the CDC.

Both those figures have declined in Alabama – and in every state – since 2011.

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That means the number of current smokers has declined by 7.1 percentage points, while the number of people who smoke every day has declined by 6.1 points. The CDC doesn’t have data on vaping going back to 2011, but since 2016, the numbers show a strong rise in e-cigarette use in Alabama, with 5.1% of Alabama respondents saying they were e-cigarette users in 2016, moving to 9.1% in 2021.

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