Bu çalışma Denizli Necati Bilican Çıraklık Eğitim Merkezi'nde okumakta olan çırakların sigara, alkol ve uçucu madde kullanım sıklıklarını incelemek amacıyla gerçekleştirilmiştir. Kesitsel bir çalışmadır. Veriler anket yöntemiyle toplanmış, bilgisayarda Epi-İnfo ve SPSS paket programlarında değerlendirilmiştir. Çocukların yaş ortalaması 16.02+/-1.41'dir. Çocuklar çok erken yaşlarda çalışmaya başlamakta ve yasal olarak çalışma saatlerinden daha uzun süre çalıştırılmaktadırlar, %65.3'ü yıllık izin kullanamamaktadır ve çok düşük ücretlerle çalıştırılmaktadır. Çırakların %68.6'sı sigarayı denemiş, 44.8%'i halen sigara içmektedir. Çırakların %46.2'si alkolü denemiş ve 28.6'sı alkol kullanmaktadır. Sigara ve alkol kullanımı erkeklerde, kızlardan daha yüksektir (p

This study has been performed at Denizli Necati Bilican Apprenticeship Education Center. Apprentices' working conditions, prevalence of smoking, alcohol abuse, voatile abuse was investigated. It's a cross-sectional study. Data was collected with questionnaire method and was evaluated with computerized SPSS and Epi-Info Programmes. Mean age of the group was 16.02+/-1.41. The children had begun working at very early ages and worked longer than le-gal working hours, 65.3% didn't use their legal vacation and received lower salaries than minimum wage for their age. 68.6% of the apprentices had tried smoking and 44.8% is smoking at the present time. 46.2% had tried alcohol and 28.6% has been using alcohol. Smoking and alcohol drinking ratio is significantly higher for boys (p<0.05). Volatile substances using prevalence is 5.3% and most frequently benzene, thinner, glue were preferred substances. Most of these volatile substance abusers worked at furnishing (12 %), motor car re-pair (7.2%) and ready made clothes (7.0%). Smoking, alcohol drinking, volatile abuse is especially high among children who have family problems, who dislike their work and who are mistreated at work (p<0.05). As a result in this study, smoking, alcohol and volatile abuse rate has been found to be high among apprentices.