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Objective:
Increase the percentage of youth who report never using marijuana.
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NH Baseline 1999 |
50%8 |
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US Baseline 1999 |
53%9 |
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NH Target 2010 |
60% |
Objective:
Reduce the percentage of youth who report having used marijuana in the past 30 days.
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NH Baseline 1999 |
30%8 |
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US Baseline 1999 |
27%9 |
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NH Target 2010 |
20% |
Youth who smoke marijuana are more than twice as likely to be absent from school or class, steal, cause personal injury, or destroy property than those who do not smoke marijuana. Drugs were a factor in five of the 37 New Hampshire youth injury deaths in
1998.12
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