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Maltese teens among least likely to smoke cannabis
DI-VE News Monday 11 Jul 2011 The proportions of young people who thought that regular use of cannabis would pose a high risk to a person's health were also the largest in Malta, as well as Lithuania, Romania, Hungary and Cyprus (77-81 per cent). The results come from a survey released by the Eurobarometer assessing the attitudes of young people, aged between 15 and 24, about drug use. Maltese youngsters were shown to be the most reluctant across Europe to use the internet to research the effects of drugs (49 per cent), along with young people in Greece (45 per cent) and Cyprus (42 per cent). Malta also scored relatively low figures when rating the likelihood of discussing the risks and effects of drug use at 20 per cent, along with Spain (also 20 per cent) and Romania (19 per cent). In another 11 EU countries, media campaigns were the most frequently used information channel; in these countries, between 43 per cent (in Denmark) and 55 per cent (in Malta) of young people answered that they had received information about the risks and effects of illicit drug use through a media campaign organised during the course of the past year. In Malta and Romania, just 9-10 per cent of young people thought that reducing one of the possible root causes of drug abuse – i.e. poverty and unemployment – was one of the most effective ways for public authorities to reduce drug problems. The low perception of the effectiveness of such a measure was shared by Czech and Slovak respondents: only about one in seven said that such rehabilitation measures were effective (13-14 per cent). Read the full report here. http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/flash/fl_330_en.pdf http://www.di-ve.com/Default.aspx?ID=72&Action=1&NewsId=84603&newscategory=31
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