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"  According to the CDC&amp;#039;s latest National Youth Risk Behavior Survey  American teens are smoking, drinking, and fighting less overall. The AP reports that the numbers of teens engaging in risky sex has gone down since the government started performing the survey every year beginning in 1991, and more kids are taking precautions when it comes to wearing seatbelts and helmets. &amp;quot;Overall, young people have more healthy behaviors than they did 20 years ago,&amp;quot; said Dr. Stephanie Zaza who oversees the study. The bad news: the survey of 13,000 high school students shows an increase in other risky behaviors, like texting while driving. Among teens who drive, 41 percent reported texting or emailing while driving. 41 percent! As the AP notes, the study reports the figures for 37 states, ranging from 32 percent in Massachusetts to 61 percent in South Dakota. The lengthy survey has data on everything from teens&amp;#039; pot smoking habits (up from 15 percent to 23 percent) and video game use (jumping from 31 percent to 41 percent) to how many high school students drink two or more glasses of milk a day (17 percent of girls do versus 30 percent of boys). It&amp;#039;s an interesting read and one that&amp;#039;s certainly eye-opening. But the stats about texting while driving are certainly one of the more alarming pieces of information to come out of it. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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