Summary
Teen drug, alcohol, and tobacco use in the U.S. continues to decline, with record-low usage levels reported in 2023, according to the University of Michigan’s Monitoring the Future survey.
Among 12th graders, 66% reported no recent use of alcohol, marijuana, cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, while 80% of 10th graders and 90% of 8th graders avoided these substances entirely.
Experts attribute the decline partly to reduced peer pressure during the pandemic.
However, nicotine pouch use has doubled among 12th graders, raising concerns.
Despite pop culture’s glamorization of smoking, teen cigarette use remains low.
because if the survey was done on school computers the students likely know/assume the computer has administrative spyware on it. I know this because when I took a similar survey to this at my school the known spyware program was still running while we took the “anonymous” survey.
No one in their right mind should trust anonymous surveys taken on computers that a known surveillance agency controls.