Teens spurn tobacco, embrace pot

[CHIMO]

More Canadian young people appear to be butting out when it comes to cigarettes, but a growing number of pot smokers has put Canada at the top of the international heap for marijuana use among young adolescents, a new study suggests.

"Canadian students are at the high end of using marijuana frequently," said William Boyce of Queens' University, principal investigator of the study on the health and well-being of the country's youth.

While tobacco use among boys has remained steady, there was a huge drop in the proportion of 15-year-old girls who reported smoking daily — to 11 per cent in 2002 from 21 per cent in 1998. As well, the percentages of girls who smoke only occasionally or had tried smoking for the first time were also down.

"So there's something working," said Boyce. "It could be health-education messages, restricting purchases of smokes (by age) in stores, and maybe the guys just go ahead and get them anyway. Or it could also be cost. With the cost of cigarettes going up so high, maybe the girls are feeling that pinch more than the guys who might have more money from part-time jobs."


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[amlouden]

1. no pun inteded?

"Canadian students are at the high end of using marijuana frequently,"

[CHIMO]

2. Appears To Be So

With the high tax on nicotine seems like the message is getting through.
But just think of the taxes that are going up in smoke.

[amlouden]

3. who knows

if kerry wins, they might decide to legalize it or something

[steely]

8. One can only hope.....

While there have been steps taken to decriminalize it, I've only ever dreamed about legalization for 30 years. But man would that be great.

[IA_Seth]

12. Yeah...

That is some pretty wishful thinking, but it isn't stopping me either!

What a peaceful world we would live in if everyone smoked a bowl every now and then....

[MetalFingersDOOM]

15. that'd be nice...

but Kerry's not liberal enough to do it. He could, however, follow Canada in making it "less illegal" to carry small amounts.

[struggle4progress]

4. gasp!

:hippie: :smoke: :bounce:

[Forkboy]

5. excellent!

[goodboy]

6. good for them....smoke on

:smoke:

[Swamp Rat]

7. I'm glad they are giving up cigarettes.

If pot had been more available and cheaper when I was a teen, I might never have smoked cigarettes at all.

cigarettes... :puke:

[Gregorian]

9. It's how I quit tobacco when I was young. Pot worked.

And I still have lungs.
But I went on to harder stuff- college.

[sphincter]

11. Same here

I gave up both cigarettes and alcohol for pot. Never felt better.

[ldf]

10. spurn tobacco, embrace pot

and that is as it should be...

:-)

[Bo]

13. Party On Dudes

[bamacrat]

14. i know

i know if pot were legal the world would be a more peaceful enjoyable place to live. but for it to do that it would have to kill people, and well it doesnt. i think our "governments" should take a look at our brothers to the north, they might just have something there.