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"More adolescents reducing their use of tobacco is an indicator, as I see it, of the effectiveness of well-funded, science-based education," said Roger Roffman, a professor emeritus of social work and a therapist in private practice. "If that can work with tobacco, why wouldn't it work with regard to marijuana?" He expects this public health effort, which was not included in the Colorado law, will be more effective in preventing harm, and encouraging healthy decisions than prohibition. The healthy youth survey conducted in 2012 also found that fewer students are using alcohol, compared with 2010. About 23 percent of students in 10th grade reported drinking alcohol over the previous 30 days, compared with 28 percent in 2010. That number peaked at 45 percent in 1999. The 12th-grade numbers dropped from 40 percent in 2010 to 36 percent in 2012. The Healthy Youth Survey is taken every two years by students in grades
six, eight, 10 and 12, in more than 1,000 public schools in Washington. ___ Online: Healthy Youth Survey: http://is.gd/IP4blF
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