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While cartridges cost more, disposables cost anywhere from $5-$30 as these are more accessible to teens and young adults. Cartridges/mods/pod systems can cost anywhere from $40-$200.

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How Much Is a Vape? Average Cost Guide | LOOKAH

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The cost per device varies greatly with a large variety of vapes. This is further impacted by factors such as brand, additional Features, build quality, accessories, vape juice quality, and more.

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What are the different e-cigarette devices & which are the most concealable (being able to hide it)?

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What are the different e-cigarette devices & which are the most concealable (being able to hide it)?

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Main five types of e-cigarettes:

Vape pens

Vape bars

Pod devices

Mods

Cigalikes

Vape pens can be concealable in numerous ways. Most commonly, some types of vape pens are purposefully made to look like other tools, such as actual pens and work supplies.

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The most common types of vape devices are Geek Bars and Elf Bars. Other brands have taken the place of JUUL by 2025, as JUUL had been under fire for directly advertising to children.

Most popular brands; listed from most popular down:

Geek Bar

ElfBar

Smok

Vaporesso

VOOPOO

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Among middle school and high school students:

55.6% reported used disposable e-cigarettes

15.6% used pod devices or cartridges

7.0% used tanks or mod systems

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Overview

In the United States, youth use e-cigarettes, or vapes, more than any other tobacco product.

No tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, are safe, especially for children, teens, and young adults.

Most e-cigarettes contain nicotine, which is highly addictive. Nicotine can harm the parts of an adolescent's brain that control attention, learning, mood, and impulse control.

E-cigarette marketing, the availability of flavored products, social influences, and the effects of nicotine can influence youth to start or continue vaping.

Most middle and high school students who vape want to quit.

Many people have an important role in protecting youth from vaping including parents and caregivers, educators and school administrators, health care providers, and community partners.

States and local communities can implement evidence-based policies, programs, and services to reduce youth vaping.

E-cigarette use among U.S. youth

In 2023, e-cigarettes were the most commonly used tobacco product among middle and high school students in the United States. In 2023:

2.1 million (7.7%) students currently used e-cigarettes. This includes:

550,000 (4.6%) middle school students.

1.56 million (10.0%) high school students.

Among students who had ever used e-cigarettes, 46.7% reported current e-cigarette use.

Among students who currently used e-cigarettes:

1 in 4 (25.2%) used an e-cigarette every day.

1 in 3 (34.7%) used an e-cigarette on at least 20 of the last 30 days.

9 in 10 (89.4%) used flavored e-cigarettes.

Students who currently used e-cigarettes:

Most often used disposable e-cigarettes (60.7%) followed by e-cigarettes with prefilled or refillable pods or cartridges (16.1%).

Most commonly reported using the following brands: Elf Bar, Esco Bars, Vuse, JUUL, and Mr. Fog.

Most middle and high school students who vape want to quit and have tried to quit. In 2020:

63.9% of students who currently used e-cigarettes reported wanting to quit.

67.4% of students who currently used e-cigarettes reported trying to quit in the last year.

Most tobacco use, including vaping, starts and is established during adolescence. There are many factors associated with youth tobacco product use. These include:

Tobacco advertising that targets youth.

Product accessibility.

Availability of flavored products.

Social influences.

Adolescent brain sensitivity to nicotine.

Some groups of middle and high school students use e-cigarettes at a higher percentage than others. For example, in 2023:

More females than males reported current e-cigarette use.

Current use of e-cigarettes varied by race and ethnicity.

Non-Hispanic multiracial students: 20.8%.

Non-Hispanic White students: 18.4%.

Hispanic or Latino students: 18.2%.

Non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native students: 15.4%.

Non-Hispanic Black or African American students: 12.9%.

Many young people who vape also use other tobacco products, including cigarettes and cigars. This is called dual use. In 2020:

About one in three high school students (36.8%) who vaped also used other tobacco products.

One in two middle school students (49.0%) who vaped also used other tobacco products.

E-cigarettes can also be used to deliver other substances, including cannabis. In 2016, nearly one in three (30.6%) of U.S. middle and high school students who had ever used an e-cigarette reported using marijuana in the device.

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Learn how much youth in the United States use e-cigarettes.

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On average, monthly e-cigarette spending was $82.22

Among dual users, cigarette spending was $118.77

E-cigarette use costs the United States $15 billion in health care - that's more than $2,000 per person a year

In 2021, e-cigarette advertising and promotion totaled $859.4 million

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ABSTRACT

Background

Over 20 states and local jurisdictions in the U.S. have imposed e-cigarette taxes. It is important to evaluate how adult vapers, including those who also smoke respond to e-cigarette taxation. The purpose of this study is to examine factors associated with adult vapers' cost perception of e-cigarettes relative to cigarettes and budget allocations between two products.

Methods

We recruited a nationally representative sample of 801 adult e-cigarette users in the U.S., who participated in an online survey in April and May 2023. Nested-ordered logit models and ordinary least squares regressions were used in the analysis.

Results

On average, monthly e-cigarette spending was $82.22, and cigarette spending was $118.77 among dual users. Less frequent e-cigarette use and higher state-level e-cigarette taxes were associated with perceiving smoking as cheaper than vaping. Age and exclusive use of tank systems were associated with perceiving vaping as cheaper than smoking. Exclusive use of tank systems was also associated with lower e-cigarette spending. Adults who used e-cigarettes more frequently preferred to report weekly budget on e-cigarettes ( p < 0.01), and among dual users, everyday smokers preferred to report weekly (versus monthly) budget on cigarettes compared to someday smokers ( p < 0.001).

Conclusion

Among US adult vapers, frequencies of tobacco use and e-cigarette device type are closely related to cost measures; and e-cigarette taxes are associated with cost perception of e-cigarettes relative to cigarettes, suggesting potential financial disincentive for vaping. Policymaker may consider imposing differential taxes by e-cigarette product types due to their different costs to consumers.

Full Text Availability

The license terms selected by the author(s) for this preprint version do not permit archiving in PMC. The full text is available from the preprint server.

Articles from medRxiv are provided here courtesy of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Preprints

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Cost Comparison and Spending on Tobacco Products: Evidence from A Nationally Representative Sample of Adult E-Cigarette Users

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Over 20 states and local jurisdictions in the U.S. have imposed e-cigarette taxes. It is important to evaluate how adult vapers, including those who also smoke respond to e-cigarette taxation. The purpose of this study is to examine factors ...

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On average, how much do people spend per week/month/year on e-cigarettes (how expensive is the habit)? 

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On average, how much do people spend per week/month/year on e-cigarettes (how expensive is the habit)? 

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The e-cigarette and vape pen market is valued at $12.41 billion and is only expected to increase. A vape costs about $20 every week. If you spend $20 every week for 12 months, you would spend up to $1,000 or more every year.

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Find out about electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), including how they work and how vaping may help you quit smoking.

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Get information about e-cigarettes, harmful substances they contain, and the situation in the U.S.

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Posted by: Adrienne Duke, Melanie Allen, Synithia Flowers, and Margaret Odom

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The Cost of Vaping - Alabama Cooperative Extension System

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The nicotine in electronic cigarettes is very addictive. Once you start vaping, you crave it more, and it will cost you.

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E-Cigarette Use Costs U.S. $15B Per Year, Reports UCSF in First Study of Its Kind | UC San Francisco

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Health Care Costs are $2,000 Per Year Higher Among People Who Vape Compared to Non-Tobacco Users

By Elizabeth Fernandez

Use of electronic cigarettes costs the United States $15 billion annually in health care expenditures - more than $2,000 per person a year - according to a study by researchers at the UC San Francisco School of Nursing.

The study, published on May 23, 2022, in Tobacco Control, is the first to look at the health care costs of e-cigarette use among adults 18 and older.

"Our finding indicates that health care expenditures for a person who uses e-cigarettes are $2,024 more per year than for a person who doesn't use any tobacco products," said lead author Yingning Wang, PhD, of the UCSF Institute for Health & Aging.

The researchers based their estimates of health care costs and utilization on data from the 2015-2018 National Health Interview Survey. Health care utilization included nights in the hospital, emergency room visits, doctor visits and home visits.

"Health care costs attributable to e-cigarette use are already greater than our estimates of health care costs attributable to cigar and smokeless tobacco use," said Wang. "This is a concerning finding, given that e-cigarettes are a relatively new product whose impact is likely to increase over time."

Principal investigator Wendy Max, PhD, director of the Institute for Health & Aging, noted that from 2013 to 2018, e-cigarette use among high school students soared from 4.5% to 20.8%.

"We weren't able to look at e-cigarette use among youth under 18 in this study," Max said. "However, if more young people continue to take up vaping and keep on using this product when they become adults, the negative impacts on health care costs are likely to increase over time."

The authors called for continuing efforts to control tobacco use among youth in order to reduce illness and health care costs associated with e-cigarette use.

"Even with the current relatively low use of e-cigarettes among adults - 3.7 percent - health care costs are already substantial, and likely to increase in the future if youth continue to use this product," said Max.

Authors: The senior author is Wendy Max, PhD, director of the UCSF Institute for Health & Aging. Co-authors are Yingning Wang, PhD; Hai-Yen Sung, PhD; and Tingting Yao, PhD, of the Institute for Health & Aging; and James Lightwood, PhD, of the UCSF School of Pharmacy.

Funding: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (U54 HL147127) and FDA Center for Tobacco Products. The authors report no conflict of interest.

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E-Cigarette Use Costs U.S. $15B Per Year, Reports UCSF in First Study of Its Kind

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Health Care Costs are $2,000 Per Year Higher Among People Who Vape Compared to Non-Tobacco Users By Elizabeth Fernandez Use of electronic cigarettes costs the United States $15 billion annually in health care expenditures - more than $2,000 per person a year - according to a study by researchers at the UC San Francisco School of Nursing.