the report , released by the u . s . narcotics abuse and mental illness services agencies , compared substance abuse statistics from their latest measurement , in 2004 , with census collected in 2002 . it was based on interviews of more than 135 , 000 adults . globally , the rate of underaged drunk remained fairly untouched , but in 2005 , it rose from 15 . 28 percentage of california children between 12 and 17 - years - old who said they had used alcohol in the last calendar in 2002 , to 16 . 81 percent who declared they had in 2004 . binge smoking , defined as drink ten or more drinks on the same evening ( i . e . , at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other ) on at worst one day in the past 30 days , was reported by 10 . 27 percent of adolescents in 2004 , up from the 9 . 16 percent who said they binged in 2002 .
People are likely to start smoking tobacco when young.