Alcohol, Cigarettes, And Pot-Related New Year's Resolutions On Twitter [INFOGRAPHIC]

Alcohol, Cigarettes, And Pot-Related New Year's Resolutions On Twitter [INFOGRAPHIC]

The folks at DrugAbuse.com took a look at the number of people on Twitter pledging to quit drinking, smoking or doing drugs as their New Year’s resolution.

They examined a random sampling of tweets from the weeks before and after the new year for both 2013 and 2014, looking for common slang and phrases pertaining to tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana in order to assign tweets to these categories. The results are displayed in the infographic below.

Takeaways:

– This year it was significantly more common for people to resolve to use more weed rather than less.

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