Canada's latest survey of tobacco and alcohol drug shows national smoking rate fell to a new low, 15% of the population smoke. Among the respondents, 11 percent marijuana, nearly a quarter of prescription opioids or stimulants.
Survey for the first time to explore the electronic cigarette, found that 20 percent of young respondents this cigarette smoking.
According to the 2013 Canadian Tobacco? Alcohol and Drug Survey (Canadian Tobacco, Alcohol and Drugs Survey), 11% of respondents smoke every day, 4% occasional smoking.
Statistics Canada said that in 2013, about 420 million people smoke, and the number of 4.6 million a year earlier (16%) far behind.
This is a biennial survey of the Ministry of Health, in 2013 there are 14,500 Canadians aged 15 and over in response to the Ministry of Health for the first time to explore the use of electronic cigarettes.
9% of all respondents smoking electronic cigarettes, 20% of young people aged 15 to 24 years old had the smoking electronic cigarette. 20-year-old to 24-year-olds, 20 percent have tried smoking electronic cigarette.
Canadian Cancer Society (Canadian Cancer Society), senior policy analyst Ann Ling Hom (Rob Cunningham) pointed out that this was "not a small figure." About 3% say, that 100 million people in the last 30 days smoked cigarillos, such that about 5 percent of smokers are not sufficient legal age to buy cigars. 15-year-old to 19-year-old respondents smoked cigarillos, 62% choose flavored cigarillos.
Survey data show that 11% of respondents of all ages marijuana a year earlier, 22% of young people? 26% of 20-24 year-olds said they had been smoking marijuana.
Nearly a quarter of respondents said they take prescription opioid year earlier? Stimulants or narcotics, two percent said they abuse these drugs.
More than 75 percent of respondents in the past year to drink, that is about 22 million people, this ratio and essentially the same figure in 2012.
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