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A growing number of smokers are deciding to cultivate their own tobacco plants at home, with some tobacco-seed suppliers seeing a tenfold increase in sales.
A new survey finds that 23 percent of teens say they can get marijuana within an hour and that prescription drugs are easier to obtain than beer -- findings echoed in stories from young drug users themselves.
A study from Europe finds that the much-lamented "beer belly" isn't necessarily from drinking beer per se, but rather a consequence of binge drinking regardless of alcohol type.