SOBERING NUMBERS

Every other year, New Hampshire students take the Youth Risk Behavior
Survey. This is a sample of the results from the 2007 survey just
released by the State Department of Education.

- -- 11.5 percent of students said they smoked a whole cigarette before
they were 13-years-old.

- -- 19 percent of students said they smoked cigarettes on one day
within the past 30 days.

- -- 71.2 percent of students said they had at least one alcoholic
drink during their life.

- -- 18.1 percent of students said they had their first drink before
age 13.

- -- 44.8 percent of students said they had a drink within the past 30
days.

- -- 28.4 percent of students said they had 5 or more drinks in a row
(defined as binge drinking) at least once in the past 30 days.

- -- 3.5 percents of students said they were able to purchase alcohol
in either a bar or store.

- -- 5.1 percent of students said they drank alcohol on school property
within the past 30 days.

- -- 39.9 percent of students said they used marijuana once or more
with 7 percent trying marijuana the first time before age 13.

- -- 8.8 percent of said students used cocaine once or more during
their lives.

- -- 12.8 percent of students said sniffed glue, aerosol spray, or
inhales paints or sprays at least once in their lives.

- -- 22.5 percent of students said they were offered drugs at school
within the past year.

- -- 44.7 percent of students said they had sexual intercourse with 4.2
percent saying they were younger than 13-years-old the first time.

- -- 34.1 percent of students said they had sex with one or more people
during the past three months and 24.3 percent of them said they drank
or used drugs before sex.

- -- 64.2 percent of those students who said they had sex in the past 3
months said they used a condom and 28.1 percent of them said they
used birth control pills.

- -- 80.8 percent of students said their parents or other adults have
clears rules regarding their behavior.

- -- 15.5 percent of students said their parents or other adults never
talk to them about what they do in school.

- -- 33.5 percent of students said they believe they is not risk to
themselves if the drink alcohol.

- -- 50.4 percent of students said they think it is wrong to drink
alcohol, 60.4 percent said it was wrong to smoke marijuana, 68.5
percent said it was wrong to smoke cigarettes.

- -- 9.1 percent of students said it would be hard to get alcohol, 12.9
percent said it would be hard to get cigarettes, 18.6 percent said it
would be hard to get marijuana, and 43.7 said it would be hard to get
LSD, cocaine, or other hard drugs.

2007 Youth Risk Behavior Survey Trend Analysis Report

http://www.ed.state.nh.us/Education/doe/organization/Instruction/HealthHIVAIDS/documents/2007NHHTrendRept2ShortRept.pdf

2007 Youth Risk Behavior Survey Results-Graphs

http://www.ed.state.nh.us/Education/doe/organization/Instruction/HealthHIVAIDS/documents/2007NHHGraphs.pdf

2007 Youth Risk Behavior Survey Results Report

http://www.ed.state.nh.us/Education/doe/organization/Instruction/HealthHIVAIDS/documents/2007YRBSResultsSummaryRept.pdf

2007 Youth Risk Behavior Survey Results Report (Online Version)

http://www.ed.state.nh.us/Education/doe/organization/Instruction/HealthHIVAIDS/2007nhyouthriskbehaviorsurveyresultsrept.htm

2007 Youth Risk Behavior Survey Press Release

http://www.ed.state.nh.us/Education/News/YRBS07.htm