Essay Archive - Teen Drug Use
Teen Drug Use
According to the 21st annual Monitoring the Future study, conducted by the
University of Michigan Survey Research Center and funded by the National
Institute on Drug Abuse, cigarette smoking among high school seniors rose for
the third straight year in 1995. Since 1992, the smoking rate has risen by more
than one-fifth among seniors, with one in three (34 percent) now saying they
smoked in the 30 days prior to the survey.
Use of marijuana among seniors has also increased since 1992, reversing a 14-
year trend. Among 1995 seniors, 21.2 percent said they had used marijuana in
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