Young Czechs Continue To Turn Away From Cigarettes, Alcohol, Cannabis

Drugs, reports on EU teenagers, declining consumption but new risks emerge

The Direction de santé publique de la Montérégie wishes to inform the public of this fact, following a study carried out [...] Read more Tobacco, alcohol and cannabis, girls consume more than boys appeared first on FM 103.3.

The authors published the data on the Internet on Tuesday. Last year, almost 113,900 16-year-olds from 37 countries participated in the study. In the Czech Republic, there were 2,977 ninth-grade elementary school students and first-year high school students. 23.9 percent of 16-year-old boys and the same proportion of girls in the Czech Republic have tried cannabis at some point in their lives. In the last year, 18.7 percent of young Czech men an…

Young Czechs Continue To Turn Away From Cigarettes, Alcohol, Cannabis

The number of young people in the Czech Republic who smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol or use cannabis products is continuing to decline, according to the results of the Czech part of the 8th European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD). Last year, nearly 3,000 16-year-old students in the Czech Republic took part in the survey, which indicated that consumption of these substances among young people was lower than 30 years ago …

The number of young people who smoke regular cigarettes, drink alcohol or use cannabis continues to decline in the Czech Republic. The situation is similar, or even better, than 30 years ago, before consumption began to rise. However, the proportion of adolescents who use alternative nicotine products, drink at risk and take psychoactive drugs is growing. Czech 16-year-olds also feel worse than their European peers. This is according to the resu…

Young Czechs smoke and drink less than before, but at the same time they are more likely to reach for alternatives and psychoactive drugs, a large-scale European survey has shown.