Giving Compass' Take:

• Education Dive reports on a recent survey that shows the incidence of vaping nicotine has nearly doubled since 2017 among high school seniors.

• With new policies in place restricting e-cigarette companies from marketing to young people, will this trend go in the other direction soon?

• Here are ways that funders can snuff out tobacco use, once and for all.

The 2018 Monitoring the Future survey of about 44,000 students reveals that the incidence of high school seniors vaping nicotine has nearly doubled since 2017 and represents the largest one-year increase in the use of any particular substance since the annual federally-funded survey began in 1975, with researchers estimating that an additional 1.3 million adolescents began vaping in the past year, The 74 reports.

The increase in vaping nicotine seems to be tied to the rise of Juul, a popular e-cigarette maker that has recently come under fire for its apparent targeted marketing to youth. Though e-cigarette sales are restricted to adults in most states, 47.5% of eighth-graders surveyed reported that vaping devices were “fairly easy” or “very easy” to obtain.

The same day the survey was released in December, Surgeon General Jerome Adams issued an advisory urging state and local policymakers to tighten restrictions on e-cigarettes and increase efforts to educate young people and parents about the risks of vaping.

Read the full article about the alarming vaping trend among students by Amelia Harper at Education Dive.