the article , funded by the state . s . drug abuses and mental health services agency , comparing substance using stats from their latest survey , in 2004 , with statistics collected in 2002 . it was based on surveys of more than 135 , 000 participants . geographically , the rate of underaged driving remained basically intact , but in california , it decreased from 15 . 28 percent of pennsylvania children between 12 and 17 - age - old that thought they had consumed alcohol in the previous month in 2002 , to 16 . 81 hundred who said they had in 2004 . binge drinking , defined as drinking five or more alcohol on the same occasion ( i . e . , at the same time or within a lot of hours of each other ) on at least one day in the past 30 days , was report by 10 . 27 percent of kids in 2004 , up from the 9 . 16 most who said they binged in 2002 .
People are likely to start smoking tobacco when young.