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Frankfurt / Main (dpa / lhe) - Since the beginning of the corona pandemic, health protection has been in the foreground everywhere.
Most of Frankfurt's young people, however, were very health-conscious even before the pandemic year, as the drug trend study for 2019 presented on Wednesday shows.
According to their own statements, Frankfurt schoolchildren drank significantly less alcohol in the year before Corona than in previous years.
They also smoked significantly less conventional cigarettes and consumed significantly less cannabis.
Never before have so many young people since the beginning of the annual surveys 19 years ago even completely given up legal and illegal drugs.
In total, this was 18 percent of those surveyed.
Health department head Stefan Majer (Greens) assessed the result as a success of the prevention work at the schools and the advisory services.
More than 1,500 schoolchildren between the ages of 15 and 18 from 23 schools were interviewed for the study.
Accordingly, the importance of alcohol in particular has decreased significantly.
Only just over one in two respondents (51 percent) stated that they had drunk alcoholic beverages in the past 30 days.
When it comes to smoking, more and more young people abandoned conventional cigarettes.
Shishas also lost importance compared to previous years.
Instead, young people were more likely to use e-products: 22 percent of boys and girls stated that they had consumed e-products in the past 30 days.
A year earlier, the value was 19 percent.
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The young people also held back when smoking weed.
Only one in three young people said they had consumed cannabis at least once in their life, a low since the survey began in 2002. In the past 30 days, 18 percent of young people used cannabis.
A year earlier, this value was 22 percent.
It remains to be seen what the numbers for the pandemic year 2020 will look like, said Majer.
"Lockdown, contact bans, school closings and restrictions in leisure activities may have changed consumer behavior again."
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Drug trends for Frankfurt