2006 Primary Prevention Awareness, Attitude, and Use Survey

Perceived Peer Use of Tobacco, Alcohol, and Marijuana

(PPAAUS items 44-46) Seventeen percent of the middle-school students believed that at least half (50% or 75% or All) of their classmates drank alcohol at least once a month, and 42 percent felt that none of them did. An average of fourteen percent of the students in grades six through eight perceived that at least half of their classmates smoked marijuana at least once a month; 61 percent believed that none of their classmates smoked marijuana monthly or more often. An average of 20 percent of the Franklin County Schools sixth through eighth graders perceived that at least half of the students at their school smoked cigarettes monthly or more often; 41 percent felt that none of their classmates smoked cigarettes with that frequency.

In grades nine through twelve in the Franklin County Schools, an average of 74 percent of the high-school students perceived that at least half of their classmates drank alcohol monthly or more often, and five percent believed that none of them did. Fifty-one percent felt that at least half of their classmates smoked marijuana at least once a month; nine percent of the high-school students felt that none of their classmates smoked marijuana monthly or more often. An average of 51 percent of the students felt that at least half of their classmates smoked cigarettes at least once a month; seven percent said that none of their classmates smoked cigarettes monthly or more often.

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