TUESDAY Sept. 1, 2015, 2015 -- On college campuses nationwide, daily cigarette smoking appears to be in steep decline while the rate of smoking pot each day climbs, well, higher.

 

In fact, a new study shows that, for the first time, more U.S. college students (6 percent) now smoke a joint each day than light up a cigarette (5 percent).

 

The findings are based on 2014 data collected from more than a thousand college students across the country. The Monitoring the Future study, which has tracked trends on college campuses for 41 years, is funded by the U.S. National Institutes on Drug Abuse.

 

"It's clear that for the past seven or eight years there has been an increase in marijuana use among the nation's college students," study leader Lloyd Johnston, a research professor at the University of Michigan, said in a university news release.

 

"This largely parallels an increase we have been seeing among high school seniors," Johnston added.

 

More College Kids Smoke Pot Now Than Cigarettes, Survey Finds - Drugs.com MedNews

My question is one I posed a few years ago on here.

 

Would you as a parent be more concerned about your child smoking pot or smoking cigarettes?

I read something the other day saying that this was happening among high school students as well and not just high school seniors and college students.

I read something the other day saying that this was happening among high school students as well and not just high school seniors and college students.

 

Pot smoking in high school is probably more prevalent than most realize and it's not just one group of students.

Would you as a parent be more concerned about your child smoking pot or smoking cigarettes?

 

I honestly don't know. I'd have to think about it, but I'm not sure I'd be able to reach a definitive choice.

Pot smoking in high school is probably more prevalent than most realize and it's not just one group of students.

 

Agreed.

 

To what do you attribute the decline in cigarette smoking & increase in smoking marijuana?

I'm not cool enough to smoke either one. :idunno:

Agreed.

 

To what do you attribute the decline in cigarette smoking & increase in smoking marijuana?

 

Peer pressure.

Agreed.

 

To what do you attribute the decline in cigarette smoking & increase in smoking marijuana?

 

I'd think it's because one causes cancer and the other doesn't. Also the resulting feeling is much different.

Agreed.

 

To what do you attribute the decline in cigarette smoking & increase in smoking marijuana?

 

Major social opprobrium against smoking and education about its dangers is universal. More lax views on pot now.

 

According to the TV you have to give your teeth to a 1970s convenient store clerk if you smoke cigarettes.

Agreed.

 

To what do you attribute the decline in cigarette smoking & increase in smoking marijuana?

 

Pot is cheaper

opprobrium

 

 

education about its dangers is universal. More lax views on pot now.

 

Agreed.

 

According to the TV you have to give your teeth to a 1970s convenient store clerk if you smoke cigarettes.

 

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Agreed.

 

To what do you attribute the decline in cigarette smoking & increase in smoking marijuana?

 

As one who has never smoked either but has 3 kids......

 

Cigarettes have a bad rep. Weed, although illegal, does not. Kids equate smoking weed to drinking beer. (Old guy words) Back in my day...the kids who were open about smoking weed were of a general group. That doesn't exist anymore. Teens/young adults simply do not look at weed as they do other drugs.

Major social opprobrium

 

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