CDC: Teen Smoking Rates Declining, Marijuana Use On The Rise

By Dr Deepu

HealthDay (10/16, Reinberg) reports that according to today’s MMWR, the CDC says that smoking among teenagers has dropped 64 percent in recent years, but marijuana use has more than doubled. Investigators “tracked teen smoking rates from 1997 to 2013.” The researchers found that “overall, the number of teens who smoked cigarettes or cigars dropped from 20.5 percent to slightly more than 7 percent, while marijuana use went from 4 percent to 10 percent.”