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Marijuana teen vaping up as other drug use, drinking and smoking decline, NIH survey shows

CHICAGO - Teens are vaping marijuana more, even as they engage in other illicit drug use, drink and smoke less, according to survey results released Wednesday by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

The annual Monitoring the Future survey of more than 42,000 eighth-, 10th- and 12th-graders from nearly 400 schools across the country showed that although use of all other categories of illicit drugs, as well as alcohol and tobacco, remained steady or declined over last year, marijuana vaping among

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