70% of children surveyed stated they would not vape if flavored vapes were not available.
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The Joe Rogan ExperienceNov 6, 2026
The extracted claim departs from the passage: the post says "70% of the kids said that people wouldn't vape if there weren't flavored vapes," which is a claim about people generally, not a self-report that children themselves would not vape. No source reports a 70% figure for that question. Related studies give different figures (Harrell et al.
Our two reads of who says this, and how, disagree, so it counts as the post's own claim.
This claim is about the present, so it is judged as of the day it was checked.
What was said
… Also, on the surveys, it's clear, uhm, that it's all about the flavored vapes. Uhm, so flavored vapes are very appealing to kids, and, like, 70% of the kids said that people wouldn't vape if there weren't flavored vapes. Uhm, so some of these folks I put up earlier, uhm, there's significant money flowing around to some of the folks that I mentioned, uhm, from the vaping industry. …
The Joe Rogan Experience · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Context. The Harrell et al. study reports that 78% of youth flavored e-cigarette users and 84% of youth past-30-day users would not use the product if it were not flavored, a different measure from the claim's 70%.[1]
Context. A 2026 Ohio State study reports that about 39% of respondents would stop vaping if only tobacco and menthol flavors were available, and nearly 71% under a tobacco-only product standard; this is a different hypothetical from the claim.[2]
Context. The ASH 2025 UK youth survey reports that 68% of current child vapers would continue vaping to some degree under a flavor restriction, which is a different measure and population.[3]
Context. No source reports the specific claim that 70% of children said they would not vape without flavored vapes, and the passage's wording ("people wouldn't vape") differs from the claim's self-report framing.
Sources
3 sources: 2 primary, 1 not rated
- 1Flavored Tobacco Product Use among Youth and Young Adults: What if Flavors Didn’t Exist?pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 2Nearly two thirds of youth would stop vaping with no added ...cancer.osu.edu · primary source · cited for: context
- 3youth vaping fact sheet 2025 final.docxash.org.uk · not rated · cited for: context
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