TOBACCO SMOKING AMONG RURAL TEENAGERS-SCHOOL CHILDREN WHO USE THE INTERNET EVERY DAY FOR A LONG TIME
The article is devoted to the study of the prevalence and motivation of tobacco Smoking among teenagers who use the Internet daily for a long time (EDPI) according to a sample study conducted in 2016-2017 among rural teenagers-school children aged 15-17 years in 17 regions of 6 Federal districts of Russia. The sample size was 18,222 rural teenagers. It was revealed that the prevalence of Smoking the prevalence of daily Smoking adolescents of ADPI not only not absent, but distributed statistically significantly higher than among adolescents NPEDI, and for boys 1.5 times, and girls are 2.5 times higher. Moreover, among Smoking teenagers in the EDPI group, 90% of boys and 82.5% of girls smoke daily.Thus, the comparative analysis refutes the existing opinion that daily long-term use of the Internet "protects" teenagers from harmful habits, in particular, from Smoking.