[The prevalence of smoking, alcohol consumption and drug abuse in school children and adolescents].
In this work the authors have examined through the survey, the prevalence of smoking, alcohol consumption and drug abuse among the school children and youth. Subjects in this research were 208 pupils in Primary school and 232 pupils in Secondary school. It has been found that in the group of Primary school children 0.9% smoke, 5.83% consume alcohol and 0.9% use narcotics. Out of total number of subjects from Secondary school 27.97% smoke, 28.81% consume alcohol and 10.59% use narcotics. The problem is especially prominent among the boys and girls of the last two years of Secondary school: 42.86% smoke; 41.35% consume alcohol and 13.53 use narcotics.