In April 2025, the Trump Administration shuttered the CDC Office on Smoking and Health and stopped collecting data for the 2025 National Youth Tobacco Survey.
Later, the Administration announced it was restoring the NYTS and transferring is administration to the FDA Center For Tobacco Products, which had been partnering with CDC since 2021.
On March 4, 2026, FDA quietly released a public use dataset for the 2025 NYTS without any analysis. (In the past, CDC and FDA published the results in the CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report before releasing the data.)
The next day, March 5, Atria Client Services (Philip Morris) and the Rutgers University Center for the Assessment of Tobacco Regulations (copy above) separately released summaries of the results of the 2025 NYTS, with Rutgers releasing more detailed tables on March 26.
The Altria results seem correct, except that on their graph of trends they say nicotine pouch use is 0.7%; it is actually 1.7%. That makes pouches the second most popular tobacco product among kids.
The overall results show that youth tobacco use is continuing to decline, most likely because of ongoing efforts at the local and state level.
Stanton Glantz blog 