December 14, 2011   Cigarette smoking and alcohol drinking by U.S. teenagers has reached another historic low, according to a federally funded survey released Wednesday. About 10 percent of 12th-graders and a little more than 2 percent of eighth-graders reported smoking daily in 2011, while nearly 64 percent of 12th-graders and 27 percent of eighth-graders reported having consumed alcohol in the past year, according to the Monitoring the Future annual survey by the University of Michigan, Anne Arbor. Those represent big drops. In 1997, nearly 25 percent of 12th-graders smoked every day and in 1996 more than 10 percent of eighth-graders smoked daily, Similarly, in 1997 nearly 75 percent of 12th-graders had consumed alcohol, and in 1994 nearly 47 percent of eighth-graders said they had done so.

For More Information:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-checkup/post/teen-alcohol-and-cigarette-use-at-record-low/2011/12/12/gIQAdtuAsO_blog.html