LOS ANGELES ? Health experts announced earlier this week that teen drinking and cigarette smoking are at their lowest points in 30 years, the Los Angeles Times reports.
The 2011 Monitoring the Future survey suggests programs and policies implemented over the past three decades that focus on reducing teen smoking and alcohol have been effective.
Since 1991, the proportion of eighth-grade students who admitted using alcohol within the past 30 days has dropped by half, to 13%. Rates area also down for older students.� Additionally, binge drinking among seniors is down from 41% in 1981 to 22% in 2011.
Cigarette usage is down for all teen-age groupings, with 11.7% of youths saying they smoked within the past 30 days, down from 12.8% in the 2010 survey.
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