Pubdate: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 Source: Citizen, The (Laconia, NH) Copyright: 2008 Geo. J. Foster Company Contact: http://www.citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=SERVICES0113 Website: http://www.citizen.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1408 Author: Gail Ober SOBERING NUMBERS Every other year, New Hampshire students take the Youth Risk Behavior Survey. This is a sample of the results from the 2007 survey just released by the State Department of Education. - -- 11.5 percent of students said they smoked a whole cigarette before they were 13-years-old. - -- 19 percent of students said they smoked cigarettes on one day within the past 30 days. - -- 71.2 percent of students said they had at least one alcoholic drink during their life. - -- 18.1 percent of students said they had their first drink before age 13. - -- 44.8 percent of students said they had a drink within the past 30 days. - -- 28.4 percent of students said they had 5 or more drinks in a row (defined as binge drinking) at least once in the past 30 days. - -- 3.5 percents of students said they were able to purchase alcohol in either a bar or store. - -- 5.1 percent of students said they drank alcohol on school property within the past 30 days. - -- 39.9 percent of students said they used marijuana once or more with 7 percent trying marijuana the first time before age 13. - -- 8.8 percent of said students used cocaine once or more during their lives. - -- 12.8 percent of students said sniffed glue, aerosol spray, or inhales paints or sprays at least once in their lives. - -- 22.5 percent of students said they were offered drugs at school within the past year. - -- 44.7 percent of students said they had sexual intercourse with 4.2 percent saying they were younger than 13-years-old the first time. - -- 34.1 percent of students said they had sex with one or more people during the past three months and 24.3 percent of them said they drank or used drugs before sex. - -- 64.2 percent of those students who said they had sex in the past 3 months said they used a condom and 28.1 percent of them said they used birth control pills. - -- 80.8 percent of students said their parents or other adults have clears rules regarding their behavior. - -- 15.5 percent of students said their parents or other adults never talk to them about what they do in school. - -- 33.5 percent of students said they believe they is not risk to themselves if the drink alcohol. - -- 50.4 percent of students said they think it is wrong to drink alcohol, 60.4 percent said it was wrong to smoke marijuana, 68.5 percent said it was wrong to smoke cigarettes. - -- 9.1 percent of students said it would be hard to get alcohol, 12.9 percent said it would be hard to get cigarettes, 18.6 percent said it would be hard to get marijuana, and 43.7 said it would be hard to get LSD, cocaine, or other hard drugs. 2007 Youth Risk Behavior Survey Trend Analysis Report http://www.ed.state.nh.us/Education/doe/organization/Instruction/HealthHIVAIDS/documents/2007NHHTrendRept2ShortRept.pdf 2007 Youth Risk Behavior Survey Results-Graphs http://www.ed.state.nh.us/Education/doe/organization/Instruction/HealthHIVAIDS/documents/2007NHHGraphs.pdf 2007 Youth Risk Behavior Survey Results Report http://www.ed.state.nh.us/Education/doe/organization/Instruction/HealthHIVAIDS/documents/2007YRBSResultsSummaryRept.pdf 2007 Youth Risk Behavior Survey Results Report (Online Version) http://www.ed.state.nh.us/Education/doe/organization/Instruction/HealthHIVAIDS/2007nhyouthriskbehaviorsurveyresultsrept.htm 2007 Youth Risk Behavior Survey Press Release http://www.ed.state.nh.us/Education/News/YRBS07.htm - --- MAP posted-by: Derek