Drug Use
A friend emails to draw my attention to the new AIHW statistics on drug use.
Thought you might like to know that the updated population stats on drug use are out today. The media is mostly excited about the illicit side of things but… the following may interest you: smoking is down (to 15% of people aged 14+), preference for ‘alcopops’ among young people is down, and more than two-thirds of people support increased tax on tobacco products or bans on point of sale advertising.
Lots of positive changes there.
How surprising, a majority of people who don’t smoke (but not all) support initiatives that will impose costs on others, but not on them.
Actually, the evidence seems to point to about half of smokers holding that view too.