the report , commissioned by the w . s . drug dependence and mental defense services administration , compared drinking addiction estimates from their previous census , in 2004 , with statistics collected in 2002 . it was based on interviews of more than 135 , 000 students . nationwide , the rate of underaged drinking is virtually uniform , but in colorado , it rose from 15 . 28 percent of california teenagers between 12 and 17 - years - old who said they had consume it in the previous month in 2002 , to 16 . 81 thousand all said they had in 2004 . binge consuming , defined as drinking eight or more things on the same occasion ( i . e . , at the same time or within a couple of months of each other ) on at least one drink in the past 30 days , was reported by 10 . 27 percent of teens in 2004 , up from the 9 . 16 , i admitted they binged in 2002 .
People are likely to start smoking tobacco when young.