title: [The analysis of smoking conditionings for junior high school students].
abstract: The use of psychoactive substances by children and teenagers is an important public healthcare issue in Poland. Starting smoking by teenagers increases the likelihood of addiction to smoking later as well as getting numerous smoking related diseases. The aim of the study was to examine the smoking prevalence and its conditionings for the 15-year-olds living in a city of 60.5 thousand people as well as provide the group profile. The study included 114 randomly selected students. 9.6% of the study group were smokers, out of whom 3.5% junior high students were occasional smokers and 6,1% declared everyday smoking (boys only). Over half of the students (57.1%) have never smoked. There has been a coexistence of smoking and using other psychoactive substances. The smokers used vodka or other types of alcohol far more often than the non-smokers, and they become drank. All of them have been drunk at least once. Approximately 40% of the smokers experimented with drugs. The conditionings of smoking for junior high school students have been defined. The study showed an important relation between smoking by junior high school students and being raised in dysfunctional family or being raised in a healthy lifestyle family of non-smokers.
authors.affiliation: Katedra Medycyny Społecznej i Zapobiegawczej, Uniwersytetu Medycznego w Lodzi. agerst@go2.pl
authors.forename: Małgorzata
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Suwała
authors.forename: Andrzej
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gerstenkorn
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D012574:Schools; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012931:Social Environment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires