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Nick Noack

World won't end in 2012, says Mayan expert - CBC News - 3 views

www.cbc.ca/...mayan-apocalypse.html

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  • Nick Noack on 02 Dec 11
     
    better, from CBC news!
Ceara Warren

Young people who go out drinking start earlier and consume more and more alcohol - 0 views

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  • According to results, males drink more and aim to get drunk yet they associate their alcohol intake with the possibility of developing an addiction to a lesser extent than females.
  • We have observed that university students progressed to drink more alcohol. When they were adolescents they drank less alcohol and then more when reaching university. Nonetheless, today's adolescents drink the same amount as university students," outlines Espejo.
  • What will happen to these adolescents in a few years
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  • If intake levels for secondary school and university students of the same sex are similar, this means that when secondary school students reach the age of 20, the consequences will be much greater than those seen amongst current university students.
  • "Nearly all adolescents who consumed alcohol started at around 13 or 14 years of age by drinking distilled alcohol (drinks with high alcohol content) in large quantities. On the other hand, university students started between 14 and 15 with fermented drinks like beer in relatively low quantities," confirms the expert.
  • the main reason for alcohol consumption in both groups is to have fun
  • The consequences are not understood
  • As for the consequences associated with alcohol consumption, neither youngsters nor university students are aware of the consequences.
  • They only take into consideration those consequences that repeatedly appear in television campaigns, like those relating to drink driving and personal relationship problems due to aggression.
  • They are also only aware of the immediate physical consequences like vomiting, dizziness, falling over and hangovers, etc.
  • ather that it is not recognised," concludes the researcher.
  • n general, youngsters feel that their alcohol consumption will have no negative consequences. They believe that for this to occur they would have to greatly increase their alcohol consumption. This, however, does not imply that the problem does not already exist but
  • Ceara Warren on 02 Nov 12
     
    "Teenagers and university students are unaware of the negative consequences of alcohol consumption or the chances of developing an addiction as a result." Interesting..
Carolina Torres

Marijuana Use Among U.S. Teens More Common Than Cigarette-Smoking, Survey Finds - 1 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...use-among-us-te_n_1582017.html

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  • This marks the first time that marijuana use has eclipsed cigarette smoking. One expert says that a factor in rising marijuana use is that teens perceive the drug to be less harmful for their health than cigarettes.
    • Carolina Torres
      Carolina Torres on 02 Nov 12
       
      It not only seems less harmful, most teens don't care about the effects of marijuana. So they smoke it more then cigarettes because most of them know whats inside of cigarettes. So in a way, marijuana is better.
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