December 16, 2015
THE CULTURE WARS ARE A ROUT:
Teenagers Are Smoking and Drinking Less Than Ever Before (Jacob Sullum, Dec. 16, 2015, Reason)
According to survey data released today, drinking and cigarette smoking are less common among teenagers today than at any point in the last four decades. In this year's Monitoring the Future (MTF) Study, which is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan, 35.3 percent of high school seniors reported that they had consumed alcohol in the previous month, compared to 68.2 percent in 1975, when the survey began. Past-month cigarette smoking fell from 36.7 percent to 11.4 percent during the same period.
Posted by Orrin Judd at December 16, 2015 5:13 PM