2024-01-27 14:00:00
Times have, it seems, changed. In any case, around middle and high schools, the cigarette break seems less and less the norm. This is what reveals a new study by the French Observatory of Drugs and Addictive Tendencies (OFDT), published on Thursday January 25 and noted by our colleagues at TF1 Info.
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This study, which involved 9,566 middle and high school students between March and June 2022, reveals a later first experience of alcohol, tobacco and cannabis. In addition, it highlights a decline in their uses. In 2022, 43.4% of middle school students say they have already experimented with alcohol, including 26.9% from sixth grade. They were 60% in 2018.
READ ALSO Surprise: no half measures against smoking! The study also observes a continued increase in consumption until final year, where three-quarters of high school students admit to having already been tempted. Alcohol thus retains an important place among the youngest: 34.5% of high school students declare having been affected by episodes of occasional heavy drinking (API).
Cannabis and tobacco on the decline
Concerning tobacco and cannabis, here too, the observatory notes a decreasing consumption. 11.4% of college students say they have tried cigarettes in 2022, almost half as many as in 2018 (21.2%). The same goes for the use of cannabis, which goes from 6.7 to 5.3%.
READ ALSO Nicotine: “Children and adolescents are more affected by poisoning” The organization also declares that it detects “differences in usage behavior between the sexes […] with boys continuing to report higher and more frequent levels of consumption than girls, particularly with regard to shisha, alcohol or cannabis.”
One of the major issues is accessibility to drugs, which appears to be easier with increasing educational levels. The OFDT also notes an increasing use of electronic cigarettes (from 2.8 to 3.8%). Its daily use thus exceeds, for the first time, that of cigarettes.
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