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 descr
iptive
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