It pretty much set the tone for media coverage of a World Health Organisation survey of 160,000 teenagers across Europe and North America. British youngsters drink more, smoke more, use more drugs, take less exercise and have sex at an earlier age than their counterparts in just about every other country.
It contained all the ammunition needed for the usual portrayal of a nation of slobbish young yobs, scorning the values of their parents, running out of control and taking the rest of the country with them. And best of all, it gave another chance to assert that nearly every Government policy to do with children and young people is a dismal failure.
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