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National Drug Control Strategy
Update 2003
February 2003
Table 12. Percentage of High School Students Who Used Alcohol or Cigarettes by Sex, Race/Ethnicity, and Grade, Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 1990–2001
|
Drug
Use Behavior and Year
|
Sex
|
Race/Ethnicity
|
Grade
Level
|
All
Groups
|
|
Male
|
Female
|
White,
non- Hispanic
|
Black,
non- Hispanic
|
Hispanic
|
9th
|
10th
|
11th
|
12th
|
|
Episodic heavy drinking1 |
| 1990
|
43.5
|
30.4
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
27.7
|
35.7
|
39.6
|
44.0
|
36.9
|
| 1991
|
36.0
|
26.0
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
31.0
|
| 1993
|
33.7
|
26.0
|
32.6
|
19.1
|
33.4
|
22.0
|
26.2
|
31.3
|
39.1
|
30.0
|
| 1995
|
36.2
|
28.6
|
35.6
|
18.8
|
37.7
|
24.5
|
30.3
|
34.9
|
39.0
|
32.6
|
| 1997
|
37.3
|
28.6
|
37.7
|
16.1
|
34.9
|
25.7
|
29.9
|
37.5
|
39.3
|
33.4
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| 1999
|
34.9
|
28.1
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35.8
|
16.0
|
32.1
|
21.1
|
32.2
|
34.0
|
41.6
|
31.5
|
| 2001
|
33.5
|
26.4
|
34.0
|
11.1
|
30.1
|
24.5
|
28.2
|
32.2
|
36.7
|
29.9
|
|
Current cigarette2
|
| 1990
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
| 1991
|
28.0
|
27.0
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
28.0
|
| 1993
|
29.8
|
31.2
|
33.7
|
15.4
|
28.7
|
27.8
|
28.0
|
31.1
|
34.5
|
30.5
|
| 1995
|
35.4
|
34.3
|
38.3
|
19.2
|
34.0
|
31.2
|
33.1
|
35.8
|
38.2
|
34.8
|
| 1997
|
37.7
|
34.7
|
39.7
|
22.7
|
34.0
|
33.4
|
35.3
|
36.6
|
36.9
|
364
|
| 1999
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34.7
|
34.9
|
38.6
|
19.7
|
32.7
|
27.6
|
34.7
|
36.0
|
42.8
|
34.8
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| 2001
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29.2
|
27.7
|
31.9
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14.7
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26.6
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23.9
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26.9
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29.8
|
35.2
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28.5
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Data not available.
1Drank
five or more drinks of alcohol on at least one occasion on one or more
days during the last 30 days.
2Used
one or more times during the past 30 days.
Sources: “Tobacco, Alcohol and Other Drug Use Among High School Students—United
States,” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 40 (45) (1990):
776–84; 41 (37) (1991): 698–703; “Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance—United
States 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, and 2001,” Morbidity and Mortality
Weekly Report, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public
Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services. |
Last Updated: May 7, 2003
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