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- 07-10 Restricting the availability of alcohol to the under-18s: Fewer pubs and off-licences are persistently selling alcohol to the under-18s according to new Home Office figures.
- 07-10 In New Zealand, for young adults, there is a greater risk of driving under the influence of cannabis than alcohol, and the results are more harmful.
- 07-10 Teenagers, passive smoking and academic results: Exposure to secondhand smoke at home decreased the odds of passing standardized achievement tests by 30% in 16- and 18-year-olds.
- 07-10 Some anti-smoking ads in the US are simply ineffective, while others actually make young people more likely to light up.
- 07-09 Australian teenagers ignore smoking health warnings: It is not illegal for teenagers to smoke, and new figures show that almost 42,000 Victorian students aged from 12-17 puff their way through more than one million cigarettes a week.
- 07-08 Operation Summer Nights 2007 is a multi-agency campaign that aims to tackle and prevent alcohol related anti-social behaviour across Lancashire in the summer months
- 07-07 New Scottish online
- 07-07 A record 10 million Chinese high school students sit the two-day college entrance exam vying for only 5.7 million of university places - stressed parents 'drug' children for exams
- 07-07 New Zealand
- 07-07 Large number of under-18s
- 07-07 Cocaine
- 07-05 An analysis of UK drug policy from a new independent commission says the UK has high drug use and ineffectual drug policies.
- 07-05 Every American child
- 07-05 what works in teaching young people
- 07-05 Scotland's police forces can now use youngsters to catch licensed traders selling alcohol to under-18s.
- 07-04 Young adults' perceptions of cigarette warning labels in the United States and Canada: Increasing label size and adding graphic colour images of diseased mouths and lungs can affect the attention a message receives and its believability.
- 07-04 US College drinking games: men and women engaged in drinking games at similar rates but was related to alcohol-related consequences in women only.
- 07-03 The key predictors of (young people's) drug use
- 07-03 One-third of young Australians
- 07-03 Teen boozing
- 07-02 Teenage drinkers rely on alcohol in later life - Alcohol becomes an overused tool for weathering the trials of adulthood if a person first uses it as a young teenager.
- 07-02 A tendency toward delinquency or living in a neighborhood where drugs are readily available are just as important in determining whether a young person in the US will abuse marijuana as whether or not he tries cigarettes or alcohol first.
- 07-02 There is little strong evidence that school-based programmes are effective in the long term in preventing uptake of smoking.
- 07-02 Children and adolescents' likelihood of starting to smoke may be influenced by the behaviour of their families
- 07-02 Australian teenagers in lone-parent families were more likely to smoke than those resided in two-parent (couple) families and for young females, the difference in smoking prevalence is striking (25% versus 13%).
- 07-02 http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1530-0277.2006.00265.x
- 07-02 SMOKING...
- 07-01 Smoking cessation among US adolescent smokers is relatively rare.
- 07-01 'The extent to which tobacco marketing and tobacco use in films
- 07-01 Use of Cessation Methods Among Smokers Aged 16--24 Years
- 06-11 'Cannabis: a drug more dangerous than heroin' from Glasgow's 'The Herald' newspaper
- 06-11 A bill raising the drinking age back to 20 has been given the go ahead by a committee of New Zealand MPs
- 06-11 A new New Zealand DVD has been launched - to educate young people on the dangers of 'P' (methamphetamine) - includes video clip
- 06-10 Even the most observant US parent are oblivious
- 06-10 Current illicit drug use among US youth aged 12-17 continues to decline
- 06-10 If drug prevention in UK schools is ineffectual, as the ACMD's new report suggests (see 2nd web link),
- 06-09 An approach to reduce unsafe drinking and other harmful behaviours among US college students may be similarly effective among high school students,
- 06-08 Researchers urge New Zealand Government to raise drinking age from 18 to 20
- 06-07 The principal of Hamilton's largest school says drugs, violence and alcohol problems are getting worse in Waikato schools in New Zealand.
- 06-07 Alcohol is a bigger threat to U.S. youth than drugs
- 06-07 Review of grey literature on drug prevention among young people - NICE
- 06-07 In South Africa
- 06-07 Review of grey literature on drug prevention among young people
- 06-06 UK 11 year olds who smoked just one cigarette were twice as likely to take up smoking within the next few years as their peers who resisted the urge.
- 06-06 How UK parents communicate and supervise young people in relation to alcohol.
- 06-05 New Zealand, Party Pills and teenagers (with video clip)
- 06-04 Black & White Teens Show Differences in Nicotine Metabolism
- 06-03 Teenagers are twice as likely to develop drinking problems if their mothers are depressed and drink regularly, an Australian study claims
- 06-03 original article
- 06-02 The chance of Dutch teenagers using hard drugs later in life is six times greater among those who use cannabis than among those who don't