Key results 2007

Greece is one of the countries that reported rather moderate alcohol, tobacco and other drug habits. However, the proportion of students who had been drinking alcohol during the past 12 months (87%) is somewhat higher than the ESPAD average. Being drunk, on the other hand, is not as common in Greece as in many other ESPAD countries: one-fourth (26%) of the students reported this. Estimated consumption on the latest drinking day (3.1 cl alc. 100%) was also lower than average. About one-fifth (22%) of the Greek participants had been smoking during the past 30 days, which is lower than average. The lifetime prevalence of cannabis use (6%) is also low, at about one third of the ESPAD mean. Use of drugs other than cannabis (5%), on the other hand, is close to average. Rather small proportions of students report other behaviours such as lifetime use of inhalants (9%), non-prescription use of tranquillisers or sedatives (4%) and combined use of alcohol and pills (3%).

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