Factors attaching the teenagers to the smoking, and its influence on teenager's health

It is known that drug's abuse among the teenagers is preceded in 100% of cases by the smoking and alcohol abuse during 2-3 years. The nicotine and alcohol are the legal psychoactive substances, and their availability among children and teenagers in Russia contribute to the age's reducing of attaching to them.
The object of research: to reveal the factors, responsible for teenager's attaching to the smoking and to evaluate the health status of the smoking teenagers.
The anonymous survey of 200 persons was been carried out. The main group included 112 teenagers, who begin smoking at the age before 11 and who smoke during at least 2 years. The control group included 108 non-smoking teenagers.
The main risk factors of attaching to the smoking are the smoking parents (50% and 20,2%), or only the smoking mother (21.2% and 7.4%), pastime in the street. For certain, non-smoking teenagers had the well-organized spare time: for example the sport activities (14.8% and 3.6%). The early attaching to the smoking has the negative influence on the teenagers health. It proved to be the reliable increase of the number of persons with disharmonious physical development (21.4% and 7.7%) and with the chronic diseases, revealed once more during the last year (26.8% and 11.1%).
Only among the smoking teenagers, 32 persons (29.8%) abuse the strong alcoholic drinks at least one time a week, at that 14 among them taste the narcotic drugs at least one time.
The present research confirmed the significance of family for attaching teenagers to the smoking and the negative effects of nicotine among the smoking teenagers. Sport activities and well-organized spare time prevent persons from this harmful habit. The smoking teenagers are evidently exposed to the risk of attaching for the alcohol abuse and drugs.