Responsible Vaping Ireland (RVI), the national association representing over 3,300 independent vape retailers, has welcomed new data that shows a further fall in number of Irish teenagers vaping.
The 2025 Healthy Ireland Report indicates that 18 per cent of those aged 15-to-24 reported vaping either daily (11 per cent) or occasionally (7 per cent). However, an analysis of the raw data (available on the CSO website) shows that vaping by 15-to-19 year-olds has fallen to 16.4 per cent, down from 18.3 per cent in 2024 and 20.4 per cent in 2023, a decline of roughly one-fifth in just two years.
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 per cent in 2019, to just 17.6 per cent in 2024.
RVI said it 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 per cent of all e-cigarette users are ex-smokers, highlighting vaping’s vital role in helping people quit, said RVI.
