Smoking cigarettes and further forms of risk behaviour in adolescents

By the means of partly adapted foreign questionnaire the attitudes to some forms of risk behaviour and the occurrence of this risk behaviour in students (n=835) of the first class of grammars schools, secondary professional schools, and educational establishments were assessed. The obtained data were tested on independence and paired correlation test was used. The results point to statistically significant connections among smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, using illegal drugs, and other undesirable forms of behaviour. The respondents believe that they will be less threatened by the risk behaviour than their peers. The results of the study draw the attention to the fact that marihuana starts to be preferred to smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol. The method will make possible to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention primary preventive program ,,I myself decide about my health - the prevention of risk behaviour in adolescents".