More teenagers are using cocaine and regularly smoking and drinking, but an increasing number are also wearing seat belts and refusing to ride with a driver who’s been drinking. Those results were released yesterday in a survey conducted by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

The survey examined the behaviour of 13 600 high school students across the country. The survey found injury and violence-related behaviours have fallen, but lads still regularly smoke and drink – nearly half said they’d consumed more than one alcoholic beverage more than once in the month before the survey.

Source: Survey by centre for Disease Control and Prevention June 2002