Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration.
The number of adolescents using marijuana on an average day vastly
exceeds half the number of all students registered in New York City
schools.
On an average day, nearly 1.2 million teenagers smoked cigarettes,
631,000 drank alcohol, and 586,000 used marijuana -- Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration
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