Electronic cigarette trials leveling off

A new government study suggests the number of US adults who are trying electronic cigarettes is leveling off, according to a story by Mike Stobbe for Medical EXpress.

The proportion of adults who have ever used electronic cigarettes rose from about three percent to eight percent from 2010 to 2012.

But there was no significant change last year, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP) study.

The study’s conclusions seem to parallel a modest decline in volume sales of electronic cigarettes during the same period.

The findings come from an annual survey of thousands of adults that has been the CDCP’s only source of electronic cigarette trends since the devices started to be sold in the US in late 2006.