- Teen-age girls and boys are about even in the number who drink (about 18 percent), smoke (about 12 percent) and use drugs (about 13 percent)

- Girls are now 15 times more likely than their mothers to use illegal drugs by age 15

- Percentage of women drug addicts doubled between 1960 and the later 1970s

- About 40 percent of crack addicts today are women

- 33 percent of female heroin addicts said men influenced their decision to use drugs; only 2 percent of men said women influenced them

- About 22 percent of women smoke, compared to 28 percent of men

If you look back to years and years ago, women were really conservative and their reputation mattered the most. Like years ago if you heard about a man sleeping around its normal, but a woman was something big! Nowadays its almost just as normal for a woman to sleep around as it is for a man. As long as she doesn't flaunt herself no one says anything bad. It's the same with smoking and drinking and drugs, I'm sure years ago it was taboo for women to do all these things but now its normal and public as well. Times have really changed!