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The main impression of the Portuguese results is that the reported proportions are generally low by comparison. The percentage of students who had been drinking alcohol during the past 12 months (79%), however, is very close to the ESPAD average, even though only one fourth (26%) of the students had been drunk during the same period. (Data on alcohol volumes consumed on the latest drinking day are missing.) One fifth (19%) had smoked cigarettes during the past 30 days. Just 13 percent of the students had used cannabis, which is also below average, while the proportion who had tried any illicit drug other than cannabis (6%) is very close to the ESPAD mean. Lifetime use of inhalants (4%) and the use of pills in combination with alcohol (3%) are both about half the ESPAD mean, while the non-prescription use of tranquillisers or sedatives (6%) is at the same level as the ESPAD average. |
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