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Teen Smoking Is Down But Marijuana Usage Is Up

Posted on October 18, 2015November 18, 2015

More teens are not smoking, but marijuana usage is going up!

While worried parents may take comfort in new statistics that show smoking among American teenagers has dropped 64 percent in recent years, the same report also shows that marijuana use has doubled.

http://teens.webmd.com/news/20151015/fewer-teens-smoking-cigarettes-but-twice-as-many-using-pot-cdc?src=RSS_PUBLIC

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