[The Tobacco Smoking among Rural Adolescents].

The article presents results of study of prevalence of tobacco smoking among school adolescents carried out in rural comprehensive schools of the Kaliningrad oblast obtained within the framework of large-scale study (monitoring) of using psychoactive substances by rural school adolescents aged 15-17 years in 2016-2017 in Russia. The technique of multistage sampling was applied to select contingents of adolescents. The sampling included 1085 adolescents, including 531 boys and 554 girls.