Study: Most US Teens Do Not Drink, Smoke — VOA Learning English
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Drug use among teenagers has continued to drop since the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, a large national study says.
The federally financed Monitoring the Future study has been carried out yearly since 1975. However, the study only started measuring abstinence – the practice of rejecting alcohol or recreational drug use – in 2017.
This year’s findings are based on answers from about 24,000 students in grades 8, 10 and 12 in schools across the United States.
One major finding: About 66 percent of 12th graders said they had not used alcohol, marijuana, and traditional or electronic cigarettes in the previous 30 days.
That share, or proportion, of students is the largest since the yearly…
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