“This report is a clear call to action for the FDA to reject the remaining premarket tobacco applications for flavored products, regulate synthetic nicotine and at long last prohibit the sale of any flavored tobacco product," the organization added. "In the meantime, states and communities should continue their groundbreaking efforts to pass laws and policies that remove flavored tobacco products, including menthol products, from the market."

The FDA shared its own thoughts on these findings.

“These data highlight the fact that flavored e-cigarettes are still extremely popular with kids,” Mitch Zeller, JD, director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, said in a press release. “And we are equally disturbed by the quarter of high school students who use e-cigarettes and say they vape every single day. The FDA continues to take action against those who sell or target e-cigarettes and e-liquids to kids, as seen just this year by the denial of more than one million premarket applications for flavored electronic nicotine delivery system products. It is critical that these products come off the market and out of the hands of our nation’s youth.”

The FDA noted that the use of any tobacco products by young people is dangerous because they contain nicotine, a highly addictive agent that can harm the developing adolescent brain and elevate the risk for future addiction to other drugs.