The young people of Austria use fewer cigarettes and alcohol, but the consumption of nicotin bags or e-cigarettes has increased considerably. Social media are experienced by a large number of students, a quarter have a low pit berries and only one fifth has used cannabis at least once.
This is demonstrated by the International Espad Survey 2024* with young people from the ninth and tenth school level for Austria. Further findings:
- A quarter of all young people interviewed has one Low Put -being On and every tenth, evidence of high psychological stress shows. Girls are hit more often than guys. Young people with psychological stress often report on addiction -relevant consumption and behavior.
- Social media Are experienced problematically by a large number of students and are seen as a major problem as gambling or digital games.
- Become Cigarettes, e-cigarettes, nicotine bases, blowjobs And watched tobacco heating together, 57 percent of the students surveyed have consumed one of these products at least once in their lives. More than a third (37 percent) have done this in the last 30 days and 18 percent used at least one of these products every day or almost every day.
- Between 2003 and 2024 the Consumption of conventional cigarettes from 49 to 23 percent last month. In the same period, the consumption of e-cigarettes harassed from seven to 29 percent.
- Six out of ten Austrian respondents had the last 30 days Alcohol consumed. About every fifth drinks drink regularly, ie six or more a month. Almost every tenth student (nine percent) meets at least one indicator for risky alcohol consumption.
- However, in the long term, however Trend to do without alcohol. Between 2007 and 2024, the proportion of young people who have never quadrupled alcohol and the proportion of young people who have not consumed alcohol in the last 30 days.
- Almost a fifth of the students surveyed (18 percent) has at least once Hemp Consumed, every seventh in the last twelve months and seven percent in the last 30 days. Cannabis use in Austria has hardly changed in the past two decades. Sniffing substances, the mixture of alcohol and medication and laughing gas are the substances with which young people have the most common experiences of alcohol, nicotine products and cannabis.
- Every tenth student has already been investigated Gamble Participated. On the other hand, gambling is only reported by very few. A third of the students studied played digital games every day, boys do this more often than girls.
*Espad (European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs) is a repeated survey of students to consume legal and illegal substances, as well as the use of gambling and digital media. 37 European countries took part in 2024. Health Austria GmbH (Gög) has drawn up the Austria report on the basis of 7735 students who were investigated on behalf of the Ministry of Health.
Source: Krone
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