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Less Alcohol, Fewer Cigarettes, but a Lot More Vaping

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Teenagers are drinking less alcohol, smoking fewer cigarettes and trying fewer hard drugs, new federal survey data shows. But these public health gains have been offset by a sharp increase in vaping of marijuana and nicotine

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The survey found that 3.5% of 12th graders and 3% of 10th graders report daily use, the first year the researchers had asked that question. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there have been 2,409 cases of hospitalization associated with vaping lung illness nationwide and 52 deaths.

Roughly 52% of high school seniors said they had used alcohol in the last year, along with 37.7% of 10th graders. Those figures have been dropping for years; in 2000, 73.2% of 12th graders said they had used alcohol in the last year as did 65.3% of 10th graders.

 

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