..and yet Psychiatric wards and group housing (mentally ill and intellectually
disabled)  the staff, nurses, carers all  still use the almighty cigarette
 as a reward for good behaviour.  The stats on these 2 groups for smoking
would be disproportionate to the rest of the community I bet.

fee

>Smoking is definitely going down in adults and in school kids too. Risky
>drink also on the decline, although less dramatically. Cannabis use by
>school kids definitely going down. Health promotion strategies
>(including taxation of unhealthy products, restrictions on advertising,
>sales and serving to minors, smoke-free areas, provision of quit and
>help services as well as school-based and public education and
>advertising campaigns) do work, but patience and persistence is necessary.
>
>We don't seem to have included any specific trends for IVDU - rather
>hard to measure such trends reliably, but they can be inferred very
>indirectly from other indicators. (which aren't shown in the report
>either). There is a concern that the popularity of amphetamines is
>driving IVDU up in some places, but not much data as yet.
>
>Tim C
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