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Many EU youths think cannabis is no more dangerous than cigarettes 

Nearly half of the European Union's young people believe that cannabis is no more dangerous to health than smoking cigarettes, an EU survey has found. The Eurobarometer survey polled 12,000 EU citizens between the ages of 15 and 24 and was published on Thursday's International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.

Of those who expressed an opinion in the survey, 43 per cent said cannabis poses only a "medium risk" to health, similar to tobacco smoking.

A further 41 per cent said they thought it posed a high health risk.

By contrast, between 81 and 96 per cent of respondents thought that using heroin, cocaine or ecstasy was very dangerous

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