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Core Concepts in Health Brief, 9/e

Paul M. Insel, Stanford University, School of Medicine
Walton T. Roth, Stanford University, School of Medicine

Alcohol and Tobacco

In The News

Uncovering Tobacco Use on Campus
(See the In the News box on p. 172 in your text.)

The survey cited in the text was done by the http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cas Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study, which examines health risk behaviors among college students, including tobacco use, binge drinking, and illicit drug use. The annual National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA), available online from the http://www.DrugAbuseStatistics.samhsa.gov Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), also looks at tobacco use among different groups, including college students.

For more on tobacco use among younger people, who may then bring established tobacco habits with them to college, check the following sources:

http://monitoringthefuture.org Monitoring the Future focuses on drug use among high school students (8th, 10th, and 12th graders)

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/yrbs/index.htm CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System looks at a variety of health risk behaviors among young people, including the use of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs

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