{"id":18507,"date":"2025-01-05T19:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=18507"},"modified":"2025-05-11T16:18:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T15:18:25","slug":"majority-of-u-s-teens-are-not-drinking-smoking-or-using-marijuana-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2025\/01\/majority-of-u-s-teens-are-not-drinking-smoking-or-using-marijuana-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority of U.S. Teens Are Not Drinking, Smoking or Using Marijuana, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by <\/span>Brian Anthony Hernandez\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n
Published on December 28, 2024 08:00AM EST<\/div>\n
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Teen cigarette use in 2024 was the lowest ever recorded since the Monitoring the Future study started tracking it in the 1970<\/strong>s. A national study discovered that teens in the United States consumed significantly less alcohol and drugs in 2024 compared to past years.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Teen alcohol use<\/a>\u00a0has steadily decreased from 2000 to 2024 \u2014 falling\u00a0from 73% to 42% in 12th grade, 65% to 26% in 10th grade and 43% to 13% in 8th grade \u2014 according to\u00a0data<\/a>\u00a0from Monitoring the Future (MTF), an\u00a0annual federally funded study<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Every year, the University of Michigan\u2019s Institute for Social Research uses grant money from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to conduct the MTF main study, which surveys more than 25,000 8th, 10th and 12th graders to monitor behaviors, attitudes and values of adolescents.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the MTF\u2019s panel study does follow-up surveys with roughly 20,000 adults ages 19 to 65 to continue to track trends over time.<\/p>\n

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The main study found that aside from the \u201clong-term, overall decline\u201d in teen alcohol use<\/a>, in 2024, \u201calcohol use significantly declined in both 12th and 10th grade for lifetime and past 12-month use. In 10th grade, it also significantly declined for past 30-day use.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Binge drinking, which researchers defined as \u201cconsuming five or more drinks in a row at least once during the past two weeks,\u201d among teens also declined in 2024 for all three grades compared to 2023 and the past two-and-half decades.<\/p>\n

Since 2000, binge drinking has fallen from 30% to 9% in 12th grade, from 24% to 5% in 10th grade and from 12% to 2% in 8th grade.<\/p>\n

Teen cigarette use<\/a>\u00a0in 2024 was the lowest ever recorded since the survey started tracking 12th graders in 1975 and 10th and 8th graders in 1991.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe intense public debate in the late 1990s over cigarette policies likely played an important role in bringing about the very substantial downturn in adolescent smoking that followed,\u201d researchers said, adding that \u201can important milestone occurred in 2009 with passage of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which gave the U.S. Food and Drug Administration the authority to regulate the manufacturing, marketing, and sale of tobacco products.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Researchers emphasized that \u201cover time this dramatic decline in regular smoking should produce substantial improvements in the health and longevity of the population.\u201d<\/p>\n

Teen marijuana use (non-medical)<\/a>\u00a0in 2024 also declined for all three grades, with the percentage of students using marijuana in the last 12 months at 26% in 12th grade, 16% in 10th grade and 7% in 8th grade.<\/p>\n

\u201cLevels of annual marijuana use today are considerably lower than the historic highs observed in the late 1970s, when more than half of 12th graders had used marijuana in the past 12 months,\u201d researchers reported.<\/p>\n

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