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Table 77. Alcohol and Other Drug Use Among Students ¹ in Select European Countries and the United States, 1995 and 1999

Country	Cigarette use in past 30 days		Alcohol use in past 30 days		Lifetime any illicit drug use		Lifetime marijuana use		Marijuana use in past 30 days		Lifetime inhalant use
Country	1995	1999	1995	1999	1995	1999	1995	1999	1995	1999	1995	1999
Bulgaria	—	50	—	5	—	14	—	12	—	—	—	3
Croatia	32	38	6	6	8	17	9	16	3	6	13	13
Cyprus	23	16	12	8	6	3	5	2	2	1	—	—
Czech Republic	36	44	9	14	23	35	22	35	7	16	8	7
Denmark	28	38	15	18	18	25	17	24	6	8	6	7
Estonia	28	32	2	4	8	16	7	13	—	—	8	7
Faroe Islands	42	41	4	4	12	8	11	7	2	1	8	5
Finland	37	43	1	1	5	10	5	10	1	2	4	5
France	—	44	—	8	—	35	—	35	—	22	—	11
FYROM ²	—	37	—	3	—	10	—	8	—	3	—	4
Greece	—	35	—	13	—	10	—	9	—	4	—	14
Greenland	—	67	—	3	—	21	—	23	—	10	—	19
Hungary	34	36	4	5	5	12	4	11	1	4	6	4
Iceland	32	28	1	1	10	16	10	15	4	4	8	11
Ireland	41	37	12	16	37	32	37	32	19	15		22
Italy	36	40	13	7	21	26	19	25	13	14	8	6
Latvia	—	40	—	2	—	22	—	17	—	—	—	6
Lithuania	25	40	2	8	3	15	1	12	0	4	16	10
Malta	31	32	16	20	2	8	8	7	2	3	17	16
Norway	36	40	1	3	6	13	6	11	3	4	7	16
Poland	28	33	4	8	9	18	8	14	3	7	9	9
Portugal	24	31	5	6	8	11	7	8	4	5	—	3
Romania	—	24	—	4	—	11	—	1	—	1	—	1
Russia (Moscow)	—	45	—	8	—	24	—	22	—	5	—	9
Slovak Republic	27	37	—	7	10	20	9	19	3	6	6	7
Slovenia	19	29	5	8	13	26	13	25	5	13	12	4
Sweden	30	30	1	2	6	9	6	8	1	2	12	8
Ukraine	38	40	3	5	14	21	14	20	5	5	5	8
United Kingdom	36	34	13	16	42	36	41	35	24	16	20	15
United States	—	26	—	5	—	—	—	41	—	19	—	17
— Data not available. ¹ Students surveyed were in the 15ñ16 year age range, approximately equivalent to 10th graders in the United States. ² Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Source: The 1999 European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs: Alcohol and Other Drug Use Among Students in 30 European Countries, The Swedish Council for Information on Alcohol and Other Drugs, CAN Council of Europe, Co-operation Group to Combat Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in Drugs, Pompidou Group (2000).

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