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2026 Teen Norms Survey

Please mark only one response per question.

The following survey asks personal but important questions about your attitudes and behaviors regarding health-related issues, specifically about alcohol, tobacco and other drug use. The combined results from this survey will be shared with you throughout the school year through health promotion activities.

All information will remain entirely anonymous. No one will know how you answer the items on this survey. Please answer the questions based on what you actually think and do. Completing the survey is voluntary. Thank you for your participation.
1.Where do you attend school?
2.What is your gender?
3.What is your grade in school?
4.During the past 12 months, how would you describe your grades in school?
5.What is your racial or ethnic identification?
6.Are you a member of Drug-Free Youth (D-Fy)?
7.About how many times during this school year have you seen or heard information based on data collected at your school stating that most students at your school and other schools like yours do not smoke cigarettes?
8.About how many times during this school year have you seen or heard information based on data collected at your school stating that most students at your school and other schools like yours do not drink alcohol?
9.PLEASE INDICATE HOW MUCH YOU APPROVE OR DISAPPROVE OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING:
Students your age smoking cigarettes.
10.Students your age drinking beer or wine.
11.Students your age smoking marijuana once or twice to find out what it is like.
12.Students your age pressuring other students to drink alcohol.
13.Students your age who choose not to drink at a party where other students are drinking.
14.Parents who provide alcohol to students.
15.PLEASE INDICATE HOW MUCH YOU THINK THE TYPICAL STUDENT AT YOUR SCHOOL APPROVES OR DISAPPROVES OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING:
Students your age smoking cigarettes.
16.Students your age drinking beer or wine.
17.Students your age smoking marijuana once or twice to find out what it is like.
18.Students your age pressuring other students to drink alcohol.  
19.Students your age who choose not to drink at a party where other students are drinking.
20.Parents who provide alcohol to students.
21.Please rate how believable each of the following sources of information about tobacco, alcohol, or other drugs are to you:
Your parents
22.Your teachers
23.Your friends
24.The internet
25.A poster at school
26.A flyer/handout
27.School newspaper
28.The police, DARE, etc.
29.Religious organization or religious leader
30.Your coach
31.Student peer educator
32.School counselor
33.Nurse, doctor or other health professional
34.What percentage of students at your school do you believe have smoked cigarettes during the last 30 days?
35.What percentage of students at your school do you believe have used marijuana during the last 30 days?
36.What percentage of students at your school do you believe have used alcohol during the last 30 days?
37.During the past 30 days, on how many days did you do any of the following:
Smoked cigarettes?
38.Had at least one drink of alcohol?
39.Used marijuana?
40.During the past 30 days, on how many days do you think a typical student at your school did the following:
Smoked cigarettes?
41.Had at least one drink of alcohol?
42.Used marijuana?
43.When you have been at a party of just hanging-out with other students, what, if anything, have you done to avoid drinking alcohol?
I don't drink alcohol, so I have not done anything special.
44.I drink alcohol, so I do not try to avoid drinking.
45.I avoid parties where students drink.
46.I do not hang out with drinkers.
47.I leave a party if other students start to drink.
48.I stay at the party, but try to avoid the drinkers.
49.I tell people "I don't want to drink." if I am offered alcohol.
50.I try to get students who drink to stop drinking.
51.I pretend to be drinking alcohol by holding a beer or other drink.
52.During the past 30 days did you drink one or more drinks of an alcoholic beverage
53.During the past 30 days did you smoke part of all of a cigarette?
54.During the past 30 days have you had marijuana or hashish?
55.During the past 30 days have you used prescription drugs not prescribed to you?
56.During the past 30 days have you used an e-cigarette or other vapor device?
57.During the past 30 days, how often did you ride in a car or other vehicle driven by any of the following persons who had been drinking alcohol?
A student who had been drinking?
58.During the past 30 days, how often do you think a TYPICAL student at your school rode in a car or other vehicle driven by someone who had been drinking alcohol?
59.During the past 30 days, how often did you drive a car or other vehicle when you had been drinking alcohol?
60.During the past 30 days, how often do you think a TYPICAL student at your school  drove a car or other vehicle when they had been drinking alcohol?
61.During the last 12 months, did you drink any alcohol at all beyond just a few sips?
62.If you drink alcohol, during the last 12 months, have you experienced any of the following as a consequence of your drinking?  (Select one answer for each item.)
Physical injury to yourself
63.Physical injury to others
64.Damage to property
65.Late papers, missed exams, failure to study for exams
66.Damaged friendships or relationships
67.Damaged friendships or relationships
68.Punishment by parent or guardian
69.Trouble with police
70.Sickness (hangover, nausea, illness)
71.School absences
72.If you have ever had a drink of alcohol other than a few sips, how old were you when you had your first full drink?
73.If you have ever tried marijuana, how old were you when you first smoked it?
74.If you have ever tried cigarettes, how old were you when you smoked your first whole cigarette?
75.How much do you think people risk harming themselves (physically or in other ways) when they have five or more drinks of an alcoholic beverage once or twice a week?
76.How much do you think people risk harming themselves (physically or in other ways) if they take one or two drinks of an alcoholic beverage (beer, wine, liquor) nearly every day?
77.How much do you think people risk harming themselves (physically or in other ways) if they smoke one or more packs of cigarettes per day? 
78.How much do you think people risk harming themselves (physically or in other ways) if they smoke marijuana once or twice a week? 
79.How much do you think people risk harming themselves (physically or in other ways) if they use prescription drugs that are not prescribed to them?
80.How much do you think people risk harming themselves (physically or in other ways) if they use an e-cigarette or other vapor device?
81.How wrong do you think your parents feel it would be for you to have one or two drinks of an alcoholic beverage nearly every day?
82.How wrong do you think your parents feel it would be for you to smoke tobacco?
83.How wrong do you think your parents feel it would be for you to smoke marijuana?
84.How wrong do you think your parents feel it would be for you to use prescription drugs not prescribed to you?
85.How wrong do you think your friends feel it would be for you to have one or two drinks of an alcoholic beverage nearly every day?
86.How wrong do you think your friends feel it would be for you to smoke tobacco?
87.How wrong do you think your friends feel it would be for you to smoke marijuana?
88.How wrong do you think your friends feel it would be for you to use prescription drugs not prescribed to you?
89.If you drank alcohol within the last 30 days, from whom did you get the alcohol?
90.How often do you wear a seat belt when riding in a car driven by someone else?
91.How often do you wear a seat belt when driving a car?
92.During the past 30 days , how many times did you text while driving a car?
93.Did you answer the questions on this survey honestly?
94.Do you think the typical student at your school answered questions on this survey honestly?
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