RVI welcomes teen vaping decline
New Healthy Ireland data shows youth vaping continues to fall, as RVI urges balanced rules to protect adult quitters
Print14 November 2025
Responsible Vaping Ireland (RVI), the national association representing over 3,300 independent vape retailers, has recently welcomed new data that shows a further fall in number of Irish teenagers vaping.
The 2025 Healthy Ireland Report indicates that 18% of those aged 15 to 24 reported vaping either daily (11%) or occasionally (7%).
However, an analysis of the raw data (available on the CSO website) shows that vaping by 15–19-year-olds has fallen to 16.4%, down from 18.3% in 2024 and 20.4% in 2023, a decline of roughly one fifth in just two years.
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The latest Healthy Ireland data replicates the trend highlighted earlier this year in the Europe wide ESPAD survey which found that the proportion of Irish teenagers first trying vapes at ages 14 to 15 has dropped dramatically, from 67% in 2019 to just 17.6% in 2024.
RVI welcomes the consistent findings that vaping rates amongst young people in Ireland are already falling at a rapid pace.
Notwithstanding this welcome progress, RVI is committed to reducing youth vaping even further.
While this should include sensible regulation of the naming and marketing of flavoured vapes, RVI is calling on the Government to protect the use of appropriate flavours to support Irish adults to quit smoking.
According to Healthy Ireland data, nearly one in four of Irish adults who successful quit smoking in 2024 did so with the help of vapes – that’s approximately 23,000 Irish adults who quit smoking with the help of vapes last year.
Meanwhile, this year’s Healthy Ireland Report found that that 50% of all e-cigarette users are ex-smokers, highlighting vaping’s vital role in helping people quit.
RVI has consistently emphasised that Flavours are a key element in helping people to quit smoking through vaping, with a 2024 survey by Red C/Respect Vapers finding that 20% of Irish vapers would return to smoking if flavours were banned.
RVI is concerned that a government plan to ban flavoured vapes in new legislation – which could be approved by Cabinet as early as next week – could result in in more ex-smokers returning to smoker.
The Healthy Ireland Report 2025 has highlighted the worrying fact that Irish smoking rates have stopped falling and have remained stagnant since 2019.
Government actions, such as banning flavoured vapes, could lead to an increase to smoking.
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