Tha social and family factors that make teenagers smoke from the perspective of students of secondary schools

Abstract

 This study aimstoinvistigatethepopularity of smoking habit among high school students who were taken as a study sample. It also, determing the social factors and family circvmistancy that cavseteenagrs to smoking, for that purpose we used the descriptive analytical approach ,and the questionnaire was adopted (designed) as a tool to collect information, and it was distributed on a sample of (100) student in a secondary school in al-qutaifa city in damascus countryside. Resultsshow that the impact of social and family factors on the tendency of secondary school students to smoke: to express their manhood, to feel confidence, and non application the decision which prevent children and adolescents from purchasing cigarettes. The family factors inclvde : the imitation of the children to their parents and relatives who smoke, more coquetry from parents to their children , in addition to that there are satellite channels and website which affect the children and adolescents . Finally, it was ended up to several recommendations