Since 2001 the number of children who have never drunk alcohol has risenfrom 40 per cent to 46 per cent. In the last year, 17 per cent of youngpeople had taken drugs, compared with 19 per cent in 2005. The number ofchildren smoking at least one cigarette a week has remained at nine percent.
Professor Denise Lievesley, chief executive of The Information Centre'said: "These figures are pleasing in that they indicate a falling numberof children drinking, smoking and using drugs."
- www.ic.nhs.uk.
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