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Cigarette smoking among teenagers declined from 2000 to 2001 according to the annual "Monitoring the Future" take a view of released Dec 19, 2001, on the US Department of Health and Human Services. This inclination seen in eighth to 10th graders, began in 1996 and is of the best news in the country's battle to render the toll caused by cigarette smoking, a leading cause of preventable disease and death.

The measure and estimate also reports that ecstasy use, which has risen during the past sum of two units to three years, slowed from 2000 to 2001 among observers in grades eight, 10, and 12 Rates of heroin usage decreased among 10th and 12th graders, and inhalant usage experienced a gradual decline with a significant decrease seen among 12th graders. The use of chiefly other illicit drugs remained stable from 2000 to 2001

The decrease in cigarette smoking was the in the greatest degree notable change in this measure and estimate Decreases are based on lifetime, past-month, and daily-use measures. Among eighth graders, past-month use declined from 146% to 122%; among 10th graders, it decreased from 239% to 213% Other research finding included the following information.

* Lifetime, past-year, and past-month use of marijuana remained statistically unchanged from 2000 to 2001 in each grade surveyed

* Among 10th graders, use of cocaine, including dust and crack forms, decreased from 2000 to 2001

* Lifetime heroin use decreased for 10th and 12th graders during the application of mind period.

* Steroid use among 12th graders increased during the cogitation period.

* The number of eighth graders who reported having been intoxicated during the past year decreased from 185% in 2000 to 166% in 2001

This scrutinize has tracked 12th graders' illicit mix with drugs use and attitudes toward put drugs intos since 1975. Eighth and 10th graders were added to the inspect in 1991. In the 2001 contemplate more than 44,000 students in 424 indoctrinates in the United States were reviewed regarding lifetime use, past-year use, past-month use, and daily use of physics alcohol, cigarettes, and smokeless tobacco.

2001 Monitoring the time to come Survey Released: Smoking among Teenagers Decreases Sharply and Increase in Ecstasy Use moderates (news release, Washington, DO: US Department of Health and Human Services, Dec 19 2001) http://wwwhhsgov/news/press/2001pres/ 20011219html (accessed 9 Jan 2002)

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