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Spirited-Focus-7312 OP t1_ir069zf wrote

Vaping has far surpassed any other forms of tobacco products, including cigarettes, as the most common form of nicotine and tobacco consumption among middle and high schoolers in the US.

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/ss/ss7105a1.htm?s_cid=ss7105a1_w#T4_down

Tools used: Excel, Datawrapper, Canva

About the data: The FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released findings on use of tobacco products by high school (grades 9-12) and middle school (grades 6-8) students from the 2021 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

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mmarollo t1_ir06gvd wrote

I don't know much about vapes. Are they even really a "tobacco" product? Aren't they just delivery mechanisms for nicotine? Is there a source for nicotine other than tobacco leaves? Can it be synthesized?

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penster1 t1_ir07ai9 wrote

Middle schoolers. So like 12, 13 and 14 year olds. Great

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GeneralMe21 t1_ir0aaxj wrote

We’re you all get the money for this stuff? I was broke back at that age

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everynameisalreadyta t1_ir0ay5o wrote

I am not color blind but have a hard time telling those columns apart. What about red and blue for example, OP?

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Lightweight_Hooligan t1_ir0dwq0 wrote

1.4% of these children are smoking cigars, things gave clearly changed since I was in school

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I-Pop-Bubbles t1_ir118vs wrote

Except vape products these days aren't tobacco products. Even the ones that contain nicotine generally use a synthesized nicotine rather than nicotine extracted from tobacco.

Not saying any of this is good, but just a point of clarification. Also, for this data set I feel like it's important to distinguish between "middle schoolers" and "high schoolers." Perhaps the color keys should be used to distinguish between these categories rather than "combustible/non-combustible", because that fact is derived from the type of product which is described on the X-axis, rather than describing the data being displayed.

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IllRoad1059 t1_ir2lp6n wrote

Was it cheaper to only use green ??

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salaciousoly t1_ir2uztl wrote

A few items:

  1. Why have two decimal places on your y-axis? No tick mark on the scale actually uses a decimal place.

  2. Why are there only data callouts in an oddball handful of categories? I say do them all or not at all unless you were making specific notes on those callouts.

  3. Why are the data callouts two decimal places? None of those datapoints have more than one decimal place.

  4. As others have mentioned, the color contrast is just not good. Google for color theory on charts. You can find online tools to suggest colors based on how many categories you are trying to highlight. At a minimum for this case pick two contrasting colors.

EDIT: a couple more items.

  1. The border is distracting. It serves no purpose unless this chart was being dropped into a paper or presentation. Even then, I’m doubtful it’s helpful.

  2. The punctuation on the title doesn’t seem to have much reason.

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fix-all-the-things t1_ir3h9il wrote

Replying to penster1 (#27,608)

This wasn't a thing until big tobacco got into the vape business with Juul which have massive amounts of nicotine. Before Juul we used 6mg/ml nicotine juice, 3 mg/ml, or zero nicotine. Kids made fun of anyone who vaped and it was a source of endless memes about how lame vapers were.

Once big tobacco released highly addictive vapes with 59 mg/ml of nicotine that all changed and a whole lot of kids got hooked.

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MolybdenumIsMoney t1_ir5x68k wrote

I imagine that the 0.3% smoking pipes also go to class wearing dapper sweater vests and have waxed mustaches

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