Approximately 50% of high school students vape.
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The Joe Rogan ExperienceNov 6, 2026
The extracted claim departs from the passage: the speaker described a study in which kids were asked how many of their friends vape (about 50%), not what share of high school students vape themselves.
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What was said
… Okay, sure. Another issue that was very unsettling was childhood vaping. Are you familiar with that issue, vaping with kids? Yeah, I see it with it's rampant in high schools. There's a study from one of the leading groups that they ask kids, how many of your friends vape? You know, by all the best statistics, about 50%. 50? Yeah. Holy shit. So this survey asked this is actually pertinent it asked, do you vape? It's like kids answering a survey. They're like, you know, it was like 5%. Like, what percentage of your friends vape? 50%. …
The Joe Rogan Experience · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Context. The passage's figure concerns how many of the speaker's friends vape, as reported from a study the speaker did not identify, not the share of high school students who vape.
Context. CDC data for 2024 put current e-cigarette use at 7.8% of high school students, and the FDA's 2026 materials repeat that figure.[1][2]
Context. State-level figures vary widely: Utah reported 5.7% of high school students vaping in 2023 and New York reported 18.7% in 2022, both well below 50%.[3][4]
Sources
4 sources: 4 primary
- 1E-Cigarette Use Among Youth | Smoking and Tobacco Usecdc.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 2Vaping Misperceptionsfda.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 3Electronic Cigarettes / Vape Products - IBIS-PH - - Utah.govibis.utah.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 4Highlights from the 2022 New York Youth Tobacco Surveyhealth.ny.gov · primary source · cited for: context
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