Statistics Of Teenage Smoking: Monitoring The Future Survey

Teen smoking has been widely used during the years 1996 and 1997. And afterwards it started declining year to year according to the study made by monitoring the future. From the past two years smoking rate among the youth got decreased gradually. The students who used to smoke during the past years had reduced their smoking rate.

According to the study made by MTF in 2009, 20% of the high school seniors have smoked in the recent months and every one in nine is a daily smoker i.e. 11%. Even according to the study light smokers got converted into heavy smokers after completing their high schooling.

There is a progress in reduction of the teenage smoking from 1996 to 2009. Among 8th graders the percentage of smoking is being dropped by two- thirds i.e. from 21%in 1996 to 7% by 2009. Even there is decrement in the percentage among 10th graders from 30% to 13%. Among 12th graders there is a decrease from 37% in 1997 to 20% by 2009.

Smoking initiates have been declined gradually because of this reason smoking rate has been decreased. Improvements in the decrement rate are being done at a very slow rate. The existence of the smoking among teens in 30 days before the survey has fallen just to 0.6, 0.9, 1.5 percentage points for 8th , 10th, 12th grades respectively.

There is a huge decline in the 8th graders from 77% in 1996 to 56% in 2007 and remained in 2009. But the case is different with the smokeless tobacco the usage has been increased from the past three to four years.

One should understand that these statistics are not mere numbers, they are actual facts. Here we discussed about the teenagers who are the future of our country. So, it is very important for us to understand these numbers and make our kids free from smoking.

Statistics Of Teen Abusers Of Marijuana

Nearly 40% of the U.S population had used marijuana for at least one time which would be around 97 million people. And the use of marijuana has been increasing year by year leading to the misconception that it is not addictive. But like the other drugs this is also an addictive one. Like any other illicit drug it has a reputation of being harmful.

For detecting the person who is using marijuana, we should look at the blood shot eyes, lack of interest in outdoor activities, loosing or gaining weight.

According to National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) 2008, 25.8 million Americans aged 12 years and above abused marijuana at least once till the previous year of the survey. Even the Monitoring Future study which was funded by NIDA shows that 10.9% of 8th graders, 23.9% of the 10th graders and 32.4% of the 12th graders who are the teens had abused marijuana at least one year prior to the survey.

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