Community effort brings lasting drop in smoking, delinquency, drug use

Monday, October 3, 2011 - 16:31 in Health & Medicine

Delaying the age when kids try alcohol or smoking decreases the likelihood that they will become dependent later in life. A new study of Communities That Care, a new prevention system, shows that tenth graders in towns using they system were less likely to have tried drinking or smoking. Delinquent behavior decreased too.

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