the report , released by the r . s . substance abuse and mental disease hospitals administration , compared with used statistics from their latest survey , in 2004 , with census collected in 2002 . it was based on polls of more than 135 , 000 people . geographically , the ratio of underaged drinking stayed substantially identical , but in california , it rose from 15 . 28 % of california teenagers between 12 and 17 - years - old who said they had consumed alcohol in the former day in 2002 , to 16 . 81 percent that said they had in 2004 . binge drinking , defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion ( i . a . , at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other ) on at least some day in the following 30 minutes , was shared by 10 . 27 percent of respondents in 2004 , up from the 9 . 16 percentage who claim they binged in 2002 .
People are likely to start smoking tobacco when young.