Czech-youth doesn't care about drug impact on health
Only one-fifth of young Czechs believe that drugs produced from cannabis, mainly marihuana and hashish, seriously affect one's health, which is exceptional in the EU, an Eurobarometer survey released Friday showed.
Czech youths are less bothered about possible bad effects of drugs on their health than other EU adolescents.
Merely 17 percent of Czechs aged 17-24 believe that drugs based on cannabis pose a high risk for human health, 44 percent consider the risk medium and 34 percent low. Five percent said there was no health risk.
In the whole EU, 40 percent see the risk as high and 42 percent as medium.
A majority of young Czechs (53 percent) share the view that marihuana and hashish should be sold legally under given conditions, like alcohol.
In the EU, less than one-third agree with this.
Some 38 percent of Czechs support the present ban on marihuana and hashish.
Young Czechs also fear the health effects of ecstasy less than other EU youths. Some 37 percent of them consider them serious, while the EU average is 80 percent.
Four percent of young Czechs agree that tobacco smoking is not harmful to health. The same portion said alcohol drinking posed no health risk.
Only one-fifth of youths in the Czech Republic considered the health risk of tobacco smoking high and even slightly less (18 percent) said it about alcohol drinking.
While the opinions on alcohol, tobacco and cannabis differed over the EU, young Europeans agree that the use of drugs like heroin and cocaine may seriously affect people's health, Eurobarometer showed.
In the Czech Republic, 93 percent of youths agreed heroin posed high risk to human health and 86 percent said the same about cocaine.
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