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Sunday, June 10th, 2012

Study Finds More Teens Smoking Pot Than Cigarettes

Author:     JIM MELWERT
Source:     CBS (Philadelphia)
Publication Date:     6/8/2012 7:25
 Link: Study Finds More Teens Smoking Pot Than Cigarettes
Stephan:   When are we going to recognize that prohibition never works, even when you put millions of your citizens in prison for decades, and spend billions each year on so called educational programs? All over a common plant that grows like... well, a weed. There is just so much money being made by the prohibition forces that only state by state rejection of prohibition is going to end it.

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A study from the CDC finds tobacco use among teens continues to decline, but there is some alarming news in this study.

The government study shows more teens are smoking pot than are smoking cigarettes.

The study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention surveys over 15,000 teens across the country looking at all kinds of risky behavior in 2011.

And while only 18 percent of teens reported smoking a cigarette in the past 30 days, a higher percentage – 23 percent - say they smoked marijuana in the past month.

Tianda, a high school junior here in Philadelphia says she’s not surprised by the findings, and says students are rarely warned about the dangers of marijuana.

‘I just hear a lot of dangers of cancer and cigarettes and I think that’s why a lot of teens look to marijuana.

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