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Johnston says rate of daily marijuana use among college students now greater than rate of daily cigarette smoking

September 03, 2015

Lloyd Johnston says data from the Monitoring the Future study shows: “It’s clear that for the past seven or eight years there has been an increase in marijuana use among the nation’s college students.” In 2014, 5.9% of the surveyed college students reported smoking marijuana daily or near-daily, compared to 3.5% in 2007. In terms of daily cigarette smoking, the rate for 2014 was 5%, compared to 19% in 1999.

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