青少年已逐漸拋棄香菸和酒,改抽電子煙

First, the good news. teen smoking is still at the lowest point since the Monitoring the Future survey began 44 years ago. Only 3.6 percent of high schoolers are smoking daily, down from more than 22 percent a couple decades ago. Binge drinking is down, adolescents are using drugs like cocaine and MDMA at historically low levels, and, despite the ongoing opioid epidemic, less than 1 percent of high school seniors use heroin. Plus, the percentage of seniors using prescription opioids dropped to 3.4 percent from 4.2 percent a year earlier. When it comes to marijuana, the rates have held steady for the past few years despite increasing marijuana legalization. "We are not seeing decreases in marijuana, but we are not seeing increases," says Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), at a press conference.

首先，讓我們來聊聊好消息。自監測未來（Monitoring the Future）於44年前開展調查以來，青少年吸菸人數已達到史上最低。只有3.6%的高中生會每天抽菸，而幾十年前這一數據爲22%以上。酗酒人數也有所減少，吸可卡因嗑搖頭丸等藥物的青少年人數也處於歷史最低水平。儘管阿片類藥物持續存在，但只有不到1%的高中生吸食海洛因。此外，使用處方阿片類藥物的高中生比例已從去年的4.2%降爲3.4%。儘管大麻合法化程度不斷提高，但過去幾年高中生吸大麻的比例一直處於穩定狀態。"吸大麻的數量未有減少，但也不曾增加，"國家藥物濫用研究所（NIDA）主任諾拉·沃爾科在新聞發佈會上說道。

"SOMETHING ABOUT THIS DEVICE REALLY APPEALS TO KIDS."

"電子煙的某些特點對小孩子特別有吸引力。"

For Volkow and others involved in the survey, the new concern is that these positive trends might be reversed by the rapid rise of vaping. From 2017 to this year, the number of seniors who reported vaping in the past 30 days jumped from 11 percent to 21 percent. That's the largest single increase that the Monitoring the Future study has seen in its history, says Richard Miech, the survey's principal investigator and a member of University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research.

沃爾科和參與調查的其他人員擔心這些積極的趨勢可能會因爲電子煙的迅速發展而逆轉。從2017年至今，過去30天稱自己吸電子煙的高中生人數已從11%增長爲21%。這是監測未來所見證過的史上最高的一次增長，調查的首席研究員、密歇根大學社會研究所的成員理查德·米奇說道。

About 37.3 percent of seniors reported vaping at all in the last year, up from 27.8 percent of seniors the year before last year. And whereas teens used to just vape flavors, now they're getting more adventurous. "Anything that can be vaped, it doesn't matter," says Meich. "Nicotine vaping went up, marijuana vaping went up." For example, 13.1 percent of seniors reported vaping marijuana in the past year, up from 9.5 percent. "Something about this delivery device really appeals to kids," Meich adds.

大約37.3%的高中生稱自己去年吸了電子煙，高於前年的27.8%。以前，青少年抽的只是味道，但現在抽電子煙卻更像是一種冒險。"無所謂，你可以抽任何東西，"梅奇說。"尼古丁電子煙可以吞雲吐霧，大麻電子煙也可以吞雲吐霧。"例如，13.1%的高中生稱自己去年吸了大麻，高於前年的9.5%。"電子煙的某些特點對小孩子特別有吸引力，"梅奇補充道。