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Levels of smoking and drinking in the UK are at the lowest levels
for a decade according to a report published by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) in October.
Drinking has dropped amongst adolescents with one in five having
had a drink in the week studied, with an average consumption of
9.9 units a week. Gary Ward of the Health Education Authority said that the study showed that there was a core of teenage drinkers
who need to be tackled. |