ABSTRACT

The study was carried out on 13-17 years old school children from Warsaw elementary and secondary schools (vocational schools, technical schools and general education secondary schools). Statistical analysis of following parameters was estimated:
1. Respondent characteristics (sex, age, type of school, grade);
2. Characteristics of cigarette smoking (nonsmoking, age of first experience of smoking, frequency of smoking, planning the cigarette smoking in future);
3. Psychosocial factors (frequency of cigarette smoking among social environment of respondents, attitude toward smoking, estimating of psychophysical self-confidence, estimating of interpersonal relationships with other significant people and environments and estimating of social role playing in youth.
The obtained results showed:
1. Cigarette smoking is one element of the global strategy that smoker uses to cope with interpersonal problems in process of socialization. P. Supranowicz 513
2. Smoking is a process conditioned by many factors influencing each other. Among this  factors, psychosocial elements are very important.
3. The sources of this process are harmful relations with parents in early childhood, especially with mother.
4. The necessary condition of intaking regular smoking is cigarette smoking by social environments of youth. Frequency of this phenomenon is condited by sociocultural factors.