CDC: Survey of teenagers find more using cocaine, still drinking, smoking

ATLANTA - More teenagers are using cocaine and regularly smoking and drinking, but an increasing number are also wearing seat belts and refusing to ride with a driver who&#39;s been drinking. <br> <br> Those results were reported in a survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Thursday. <br> <br> The survey examined the behavior of 13,600 high school students across the country. <br> <br> The survey found injury and violence-related behaviors have fallen, but kids still regularly smoke and drink -- nearly half said they&#39;d consumed more than one alcoholic beverage more than once in the month before the survey. <br> <br> The number of teenagers who said they had tried cocaine within the past 30 days rose to 9.4 percent, up from 5.9 percent in 1991. About 4.2 percent of students said they had used cocaine in the past 30 days, a 59 percent increase from 1991. <br> <br> About 46 percent of teenagers said they&#39;d had sex, down from 54 percent in the 1991 survey. The percentage of sexually active teenagers who had used a condom increased from 46 percent to 58 percent from 1991 to 1999, but then remained there through 2001. <br> <br> Other findings from the CDC survey: <br> <br> --The number of teenagers who said they never or rarely wore a seat belt fell from 25,9 percent to 14.1 percent. <br> <br> --The number of teenagers who said they rode with a driver who had been drinking fell from 39.9 percent to 30.7 percent. <br> <br> --The percentage of teenagers in daily physical education class fell from 41.6 percent in 1991 to 32.2 percent a decade later. <br> <br> --The percentage of students who carried a weapon decreased from 26.1 percent in 1991 to 17.4 percent in 2001.