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Statistical Notes

2000 Volume 19, Issue no. 2

The figure shows results from the biennial OPCS survey on drinking and smoking by children in England age 11 to 15. From 1988 when the survey was first performed to 1996 there has been a steady upward trend in the percentage of boys and girls who report drinking alcohol and in the amount they report drinking. In the last survey this trend appears to have been reversed. The same pattern is seen in each age band and smoking habits shows a similar picture.

Source Table 7.2 Goddard E and Higgins V (1999) Smoking, drinking and drug use among young teenagers in 1998 Volume 1 England London The Stationery Office.

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