Most US Teens Are Abstaining From Drinking, Smoking, and Marijuana, Survey Says

Most US Teens Are Abstaining From Drinking, Smoking, and Marijuana, Survey Says
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NEW YORK—Teen drug use hasn’t rebounded from its drop during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the results from a large annual national survey released Tuesday.

About two-thirds of 12th graders this year said they hadn’t used alcohol, marijuana, cigarettes, or e-cigarettes in the previous 30 days. That’s the largest proportion abstaining since the annual survey started measuring abstinence in 2017.