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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.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Teenagers going out to party - bad

Teenagers sitting at home - also bad.

What the hell are kids supposed to do? Just not exist from the period where we stop finding them cute till adulthood?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Already being worked on. Fertility rates are below replacement rate and keep dropping.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Well......yeah. Have you SEEN this world??? I don't want to bring new kids into this awful planet. Do YOU???

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Going out to party isn't bad. Sitting at home using drugs and alcohol compulsively because you are addicted is bad. It's a fine line to walk but lots of people do it. I did every drug under the sun as a youth and turned out fine, and this applies to pretty much my entire university cohort. Not a single one of them ended up as a junkie.

Should we encourage kids to drink and do drugs? I don't know tbh. That experience was genuinely positive for me because it gets me out there in the world, made me friends and memories and taught me lessons about moderation. From my point of view the people who ended up getting the shit end of the stick were the handful of people I know who got addicted to WoW and online gambling, not the one who did drugs on occasion. But apparently those things are becoming common and culturally acceptable while partying isn't. Take that as you will.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

For my kid who is very athletic, I always phrased it as “don’t destroy your cardio by inhaling any ashes or burning stuff”

But he is so strait laced and so careful with his health that it’s not really an issue.

My other kid is a different story. Luckily he doesn’t like the smell of cigarettes or pot smoke, but I found out his vice when he offered me a gummy. First: cool, second: shit, I was supposed to yell at you

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (3 children)

You can go out to party without doing heroin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Sure if you want to be lame

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I'm already so sleepy, I don't need to feel even sleepier.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I got my vasectomy, did you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Sports, Music, Hobbies like board games, Outdoor activities like camping and hiking.

There is plenty of fulfilling things to do together that dont involve alcohol or other drugs or "partying" in the sense of loud music, bad hookups and regrettable videos the next day.