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French binge drinking like the brits Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=healthNews&storyid=2006-09-12T192758Z_01_L12453934_RTRUKOC_0_US-FRANCE-HEALTH-YOUTH.xml&src=rss&rpc=22 http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=healthNews&storyid=2006-09-12T192758Z_01_L12453934_RTRUKOC_0_US-FRANCE-HEALTH-YOUTH.xml&src=rss&rpc=22 French youth embrace British binge boozing Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:28pm ET173 PARIS (Reuters) - French youngsters are smoking and drinking less but are increasingly indulging in the sort of weekend drinking binges usually associated with their British counterparts, a government study showed on Tuesday. Regular drinking of alcohol reported by those surveyed dropped between 2003 and 2005 to 18 percent from 21 percent for boys, and to 6 from 7 percent for girls, the annual Escapade study of 30,000 17 year-olds showed. But 1-in-10 teenagers asked about alcohol use in 2005 said he or she had been drunk at least 10 times in the past year -- a jump of around percent from the 2003 findings. The report adopted the English expression "binge drinking" to refer to youth drunkenness and said the "Anglo-Saxon" style of intense boozing was more marked among boys (55.7 percent) than girls (35.5 percent). Some regional officials have banned public drinking in order to counter the excessive noise and tell-tale garbage left behind after Saturday nights of youngster excess in city centers. The report also showed that daily smoking had fallen to 32.9 percent from 37.6 percent among 17-year-olds over the 2-year period, a time when new taxes on cigarette sales raised prices by around 40 percent. Regular users of marijuana held steady over 2003-2005 at 15 percent for boys and 6 percent for girls, while those who said the they had already tried cocaine rose from to 2.5 from 1.6 percent. © Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved.

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