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Teens and Risky Behaviors

14.2% of students had smoked a whole cigarette for the first time before age 13 years.

38.1% of students had used marijuana one or more times during their life.

26.0% of students had had five or more drinks of alcohol in a row (i.e., within a couple of hours) on at least 1 day during the 30 days before the survey.

- 2007 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey Overview

National Study Shows Reversal in Decade-Long Declines in Teen Abuse of Drugs and Alcohol

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