article_snippet: The findings, based on a series of papers put together with the help of the World Health Organisation, are the latest to underline the increasing trend for teenagers to avoid risky behaviour in favour of a healthier lifestyle.
article_snippet: In England and Wales teen pregnancies have fallen to levels last seen in the 1960s and official surveys have shown a major drop in drinking among young people.
article_snippet: More than a quarter of under-24s are teetotal and fewer than a fifth ever go binge drinking, according to 2013 estimates.
article_snippet: in 2013 tobacco smoking among young women aged 18 to 24 dropped by 10 per cent, and among young men by almost as much.
article_snippet: State surveys also showed a major drop in 2013 in numbers of people in the same age group who took any illegal drug, down from 19.3 per cent to 16.3 per cent.
article_snippet: Widespread public disapproval of smoking, drunkenness, drug abuse and teen mothers is also likely to have influenced teen behaviour.
article_snippet: Critics of the Teenage Pregnancy Strategy, launched in England by Tony Blair, have said that it had nothing to do with the fall in teenage pregnancy, which did not become evident until after David Cameron’s Coalition scrapped the programme of contraceptive distribution in 2010.
highlights_snippet: Teen pregnancies in England and Wales have fallen to 1960s levels .
  