the report , issued by the u . s . substance addict and emotional health services management , compared substance addiction stats from their latest survey , in 2004 , with statistics collected in 2002 . it was focused on photographs of more than 135 , 000 people . locally , the rate of underaged drinking remain essentially fixed , but in colorado , it rose from 15 . 28 percent of all children between 12 and 17 - years - old have said they had consumed alcohol in the previous july in 2002 , to 16 . 81 centimeters who believed they had in 2004 . binge taking , defined as consuming several or more things on the same evening ( i . e . , at the same time or within a couple of evenings of each other ) on at least the day in the next 30 months , was reported by 10 . 27 percent of children in 2004 , up from the 9 . 16 percent who reported they binged in 2002 .
People are likely to start smoking tobacco when young.