Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the-counter and illicit substances in 2008 Cancer Council Victoria Graphs prepared by Paul Dillon Drug and Alcohol Research and Training Australia Based on the report prepared by Victoria White and Geoff Smith

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Tobacco

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Never smoked tobacco, Australian secondary school students, ASSAD Survey %

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Percentage of students who describe themselves as a ‘non-smoker’, ASSAD Survey %

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Smoked tobacco in past year, Australian secondary school students, ASSAD Survey %

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Smoked 100+ cigarettes in lifetime, Australian secondary school students, ASSAD Survey %

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Committed smokers (3+ days in past 7 days), Australian secondary school students, ASSAD Survey %

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Prevalence of smoking among and year olds, ASSAD Surveys % Among students, smoking decreased through the 1980s and then started to rise again in the 1990s. Smoking prevalence began to decrease after 1996 amongst the year olds, and 1999 for the year olds and this decline continues to 2008

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Preferred brands by those students who smoked in the past week, ASSAD Survey % In 2008, Winfield (42%) was the most popular cigarette brand among adolescent current smokers. Peter Jackson and Longbeach were both smoked by 13% of current smokers. Interestingly, in 2008, these three brands were all sold in packets of 20s and/or 25s

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Percentage of current smokers who bought or did not buy their last cigarette, ASSAD Survey % Twenty per cent of current smokers bought their last cigarette themselves. Buying cigarettes was more common among current smokers aged 16 to 17 years than those aged 12 to 15 years

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Alcohol

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Never consumed alcohol, Australian secondary school students, ASSAD Survey %

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Percentage of students who describe themselves as a ‘non-drinker’, ASSAD Survey %

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Percentage of students who consumed alcohol in the past month, ASSAD Survey %

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Percentage of students who consumed alcohol in past week (current drinker), ASSAD Survey %

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Percentage of ‘binge drinkers’ (males: 7+ drinks; females: 5+ drinks on one occasion), ASSAD Survey %

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Drink types most commonly consumed by those who drank alcohol in the past week, ASSAD Survey % Not surprisingly, beer is more popular with young men than young women and the opposite is true for premixed spirits. However, the drink type consistently popular across all ages and genders is spirits

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Percentage of current drinkers who consumed their last alcoholic drink under adult supervision, ASSAD Survey %

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Percentage of current drinkers drinking at home, at a party or at a friend’s house who consumed their last alcoholic drink under adult supervision, ASSAD Survey %

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Average number of drinks per week for current drinkers who drank their last drink at a party, according to source of alcohol, ASSAD Survey Mean number of drinks per week Among year olds, current drinkers consumed significantly fewer drinks per week when parents supplied the alcohol for the party than those current drinkers who obtained their alcohol for the party by getting someone else to buy it for them

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Prevalence of risky drinking among year old current drinkers, ASSAD Surveys % The prevalence of risky drinking (defined as drinking more than 6 drinks for males and more than 4 for females) increased throughout the 1990s. The 2008 data suggests that there may be a ‘slowing down’ in the rate of increase but it is still much more prevalent than it was in the 1980s and early 90s

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Prevalence of risky drinking among year old current drinkers, ASSAD Surveys % As for the year olds, the prevalence of risky drinking has been increasing since 1984, although it would appear that the young men peaked in Young women’s rate of risky drinking increased sharply in the late 1990s and has leveled off in recent years

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Over-the-counter and illicit substances

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Prevalence (%) of lifetime drug use (excluding tobacco and alcohol) among year old students, ASSAD Survey %

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Prevalence (%) of year old students who have never used drugs (excluding tobacco and alcohol), ASSAD Survey %

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Prevalence (%) of past year drug use among year old students, ASSAD Survey %

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Prevalence (%) of no drug use in past year among year old students, ASSAD Survey %

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Prevalence (%) of last year drug use among year old students, ASSAD Surveys % This graph reports the proportion of secondary school students in Australia who reported using a range of illicit drugs. No drugs appear to be significantly increasing in use. Ecstasy, however, has been steadily increasing in use since 1996, with 3.5% of year old students using it in the past year in 2008

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Prevalence (%) of year old students who have not used, ASSAD Surveys % This graph reports the proportion of secondary school students in Australia who reported not using a range of illicit drugs. The vast majority of students report not using drugs, with the number of those not using cannabis increasing significantly

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Cannabis

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Lifetime cannabis use, Australian secondary school students, ASSAD Surveys %

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Lifetime cannabis use, Australian secondary school students years, ASSAD Surveys %

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Lifetime cannabis use, Australian secondary school students, ASSAD Survey %

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Used cannabis in past year, Australian secondary school students, ASSAD Survey % Among the 11% of students who reported using cannabis in the previous year, 36% of males and 41% of females had used it only once or twice. Thirty four per cent of males and 25% of females, however, had used it on 10 or more occasions

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Used cannabis in past week, Australian secondary school students, ASSAD Survey %

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Cannabis use in past week, Australian secondary school students, ASSAD Surveys %

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Ecstasy

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Lifetime ecstasy use, Australian secondary school students, ASSAD Surveys %

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Lifetime ecstasy use, Australian secondary school students years, ASSAD Surveys %

Australian secondary school students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and over-the- counter and illicit substances in 2008 Lifetime ecstasy use, Australian secondary school students, ASSAD Survey %