YRBS Data

What are youth saying about their alcohol, tobacco and drug use...the answer may surprise you.

2009 NH YRBS Data

• 11.4% of the students smoked a whole cigarette for the first time before age 13.

• 22.6% of the students had 5 or more drinks of alcohol in a row, that is, within a couple of hours, on one or more of the past 30 days.
• 39.6% of the students used marijuana one or more times during their life.
• 11.0% of the students sniffed glue, breathed the contents of aerosol spray cans, or inhaled any paints or sprays to get high one or more times during their life.
• 24.9% of students think it would be easy or very east to get a drug like cocaine, LSD, or amphetamines
• 19.9% of the students who had sexual intercourse during the past 3 months drank alcohol or used drugs before last sexual intercourse.
• 78.6% of the students agree or strongly agree their parents or other adults in their family have clear rules and standards for their behavior.
• 40.9% of the students agree or strongly agree that in their community they feel like they matter to people.