A third of students say they tried alcohol before entering 6th grade, compared to 49.8% in 2014. This level of experimentation, however, remains
A third of students say they have tried alcohol before entering the 6th year, compared to 49.8% in 2014. This level of experimentation still remains the highest in Europe.
Consumption of alcohol, tobacco and cannabis is falling among young French teenagers aged 11 to 15, but remains higher than the European average, according to a note from the French Observatory for Drugs and Drug Addiction (OFDT) published on Tuesday.
By 2018, 70% of French teenagers aged 15 said they had ever drunk alcohol, compared to 79.2% in 2014, according to the OFDT, whose analysis is based on the results of a World Health Organization (WHO) survey. every four years with 227,000 students from 44 countries or regions of Europe and Canada.
A third of students say they have tasted before entering the 6th (compared to 49.8% in 2014), the level of experimentation is the highest in Europe, at this age, of all genders combined. If boys are consumers earlier than girls up to the age of 13, the difference then disappears in almost all of Europe, with the exception of Armenia, Moldova and Albania.
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The experiment of getting drunk – at least twice in a lifetime, more generally for boys than for girls, also falls from 17.1 to 12.9% among young French 15-year-olds, putting them in the bottom quarter of a ranking dominated by Denmark.
Cigarettes also have a much smaller following with only a third of French teenagers having already tried at the end of college in 2018, compared to more than half in 2014. Experimentation rates among 11- and 13-year-olds, significantly lower, are also down from 4.1 and 4.1 respectively 14% of first smokers. If it remains above the European average, the share of young smokers, “during the month” in France leaves the first places on the scale occupied by Italy, Bulgaria and Lithuania.
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Cannabis experimentation among 15-year-old adolescents has continued to rise in France since 2006, a drop of 12 percentage points in 2018, with 16.5% of boys and girls smoking their first joint. Consumption “by month” (8.5 percent) follows the same curve, with a decline of six points. France leaves the first place, but remains in the top third of the countries with the most consumers among adolescents.
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Date of update: 22 May 2020, 07:58
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Source: newstars.edu.vn