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June 7th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda THURSDAY, June 7 (HealthDay News) — Although more teen drivers
are buckling up and not driving drunk than in years past, another
danger — texting — is posing a new threat, U.S. government research
shows.
One in three high school students said they had texted or emailed while
driving during the past month, says a research team from the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
“Texting or emailing while driving can have deadly consequences that
are entirely preventable,” Howell Wechsler, director of CDC’s Division of
Adolescent and School Health, said during a noon press conference
Thursday. “So while we are pleased to see changes in many behaviors
related to motor vehicle crashes, we are alarmed by some of the new
findings, especially those involving distracted driving.”
There was some very good news from the new report: Over the past 20
years there have been marked improvements among teens in terms of wearing
seatbelts, not riding with drunk drivers and not driving drunk, Wechsler‘s
team found.
“The most notable finding in this report is the significant reduction
in risk behaviors related to motor vehicle crashes, which are the leading
cause of death among youth in the United States,” Wechsler said. “They
account for more than one in three teen deaths every year.”
From 1991 to 2011, the time span covered by the report, the number of
high school students who said they “never or rarely” wore a seat belt
dropped from 26 percent to only 8 percent.
Over the same period, the number of students who said they had recently
ridden with a driver who had been drinking dropped from 40 percent to 24
percent. The number of teens who said they had been drinking while driving
fell from 17 percent in 1997 to 8 percent in 2011, the report notes.
“These trends show that we are making great progress in helping our
nation’s youth make positive health choices,” Wechsler said. “Over the
past decade there has been a 44 percent drop in motor vehicle crash deaths
in teens aged 13 to 19 years old.”
But new distracting, potentially dangerous behaviors such as texting
have also emerged. “For the first time, the report offers national data
showing that the use of technology [such as cellphones] among youth is
resulting in new risks,” Wechsler said.
In addition, the report found that one in six teens had been bullied
through email, chat rooms, instant messaging, websites or texting in the
past year.
Other highlights of the report include:
- In 2009, 19 percent of teens smoked; in 2011 it was 18 percent.
- Marijuana use rose from 21 percent in 2009 to 23 percent in 2011.
- More high school students smoke marijuana now than smoke
cigarettes.
The data were collected by interviewing more than 15,000 high school
students from around the nation. For the first time, data were collected
using both landline phones and cellphones.
More information
To see the full report, visit the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
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