Alcohol consumption has been increasing all over the world, especially in developing countries. Problems depending on alcohol consumption are getting intractable day by day. In prevention schemes, family becomes more important as the effect of social learning is noticed. This study was carried out ta determine the relationship between the alcohol use the frequency of this habit and socio-demographic characteristics and social learning of alcohol use. The study was made on 1559 students in secondary and high schools and apprentice education centers in Konya while choosing schools we paid special attention to the acceptance points of the students and to the distance of the school to the city-centre.

Besides this, folded random study groups were formed and the classes in the school were chosen randomly. The young students were asked about their socio-demographic characteristics, whether the other members of their family (and the people they feel close to them) have alcohol or not through a survey. The results were evaluated by Chi-square test and logistic regression analyse in the programme of SPSS for windows 6.0 177 of adolescent (11.3 %) said that they had alcohol once a mounth. A relation was estabhished between alcohol use of adolescent and their fathers, ideal teachers or elder brothers and sister s who drink alcohol. It was also, established that there was a relationship between this habit of young people and their age and their understanding of alcohol as something bad and harmful. It is suggested that social learning has very important role in adolescent's alcohol use. Attention should be giyen to the negative effect of the alcohol use of people who can be taken examples by adolescent's (mother, father, elder, brother, sister, teacher, popular people).