Fewer Teens Smoking, Using Drugs

Over the past years statistics has shown teen usage on smoking and drugs has declined drastically. The smoking rate among younger teens is half what it was in the mid-1990s, and drug use by that group is down by one-third, says the University of Michigan study, done for the National Institute on Drug Abuse and released Tuesday. Less dramatic strides have been made among older teens. After doing research for a paper I did last year I've concluded that most teens who use these drugs tend to be less attractive to the great majority of the opposite sex. Overall, the percentage of eighth-graders who had ever tried cigarettes declined to 28 percent this year, down half a percentage point from 2003 and from a peak of 49 percent in 1996. Many researchers believes that commercials has had an huge impact on teens. An huge example would be "The Truth" commercial on cigerettes. These companies spent millions of dollars to make these commercials. Do you think that this is worth it?
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