Prevalence of smoking, alcohol and drug addiction among school adolescents living in 21 towns of Russian Federation has been obtained in the anonymous questionnaire survey performed in 1991-1992. The investigated cities were divided into groups according to the nearness of the prevalences by the Average Linkage Cluster Analysis. There is dependence of strain acuteness regarding individual substance use components (alcohol, cigarette, narcotic use) in the cities on the spread of loyal attitude of the social environment to the relevant negative habits. The predominant role of alcohol abuse among the three substance-use component and their close relationship are shown.

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[Prevalence of smokers in Moscow Region].

The results of monitoring of bad habits (smoking) among senior schoolchildren in 23 towns of Moscow Region are dynamically described in the paper for 2000-2003. Smoking-related specific features are analyzed with respect to the age and sex differences of teenagers. A database, comprising above 25,000 entries, was created on the prevalence of smokers among city schoolchildren.

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[Drug abuse problems among senior high-school students of Stavropol'].

Characterizes the prevalence of use of alcohol, narcotic and toxic agents and tobacco smoking among the older schoolchildren in the Stavropol district in 1991 and 1994. The prevalence and motivation of alcoholization, tobacco smoking, and narcotization of adolescents and schoolchildren are analyzed on a large representative scope of material. The regularities in the development of harmful habits and time course of their progress are disclosed and the unfavorable tendencies are shown as regards the most socially hazardous types of narcotization of schoolchildren--alcoholization and narcotization.

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