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Cigarette smoking is falling out of fashion among American teens, so much so that vaping and pot are now more prevalent, according to a new government-funded study. Researchers at the University of Michigan surveyed nearly 50,000 students in 8th, 10th, and 12th grade across the U.S. and asked the teens to self-report any recent drug use. Out of all the 12th graders surveyed, 22.9% said they had used pot within the last 30 days, 16.6% said they had used a vaping device, and only 9.7% said they had smoked cigarettes.
The ‘Monitoring the Future’ study, which has been conducted by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) every year since 1975, also found that teens’ use of alcohol, tobacco, prescription painkillers, and other drugs has either decreased since last year, or remained at the same level. The results regarding opioid abuse are especially promising, with teen opioid use hitting historic lows, despite the current opioid crisis. For example, only 2% of teens said they used Vicodin in 2017, down significantly from 10.5% in 2003.
“We’re impressed by the improvement in substance use by all teenagers,” Dr. Wilson Compton, deputy director of the NIDA, told The New York…
