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Factors that Influence Smoking and Drinking Behavior in Some Technical High School Students: Family Environment and Friend's Smoking and Drinking Yeon-Sook Yoo*․Keon-Yeop Kim**․Moo-Sik Lee*** Jee-Young Hong***․Seok-Hwan Bae****․Hye-Jeong Hwang*** *Department of Health Education, the Graduate School of Education, Konyang University **Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Kyungpook National University ***Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Konyang University ****Department of Radiology, College of Medical Science, Konyang University Objectives: This study was conducted to examine the status of technical high school students' smoking and drinking behavior and find related factors to their behavior. Methods: The subjects were 1,000 high school students in 2006. We used a structured and self-administered questionnaire. We analyzed data by using chi-square test, logistic regression analysis. Results: In logistic regression analysis, risk factors of smoking experience were male, unsatisfied school life and smoking by their parents and peers. And risk factors of drinking experience were drinking by their parents and peers. Conclusions: This study showed that most recognizable factor to technical high schoolers' smoking and drinking experiences would rather be parents, peers and satisfied with school life than family's life style. Therefore, it can be said that friends and parents had an impact on students' life style on smoking and drinking.