<p><strong><em>ABSTRACT</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Background: </em></strong><em>There are many factors behind the causes of smoking, including sociocultural variables including peer influence, people who smoke, lack of parental supervision, media influence, and social environment. Then from the psychological variables including the presence of changes in mood after smoking, the effect of reducing tension, personality characteristics, and biological variables.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>Objective</em></strong><em>: The literature review aims to examine smoking behavior in order to obtain information about smoking behavior in male adolescents. </em></p>
<p><strong><em>Methods:</em></strong><em> The method used in this search for literature review uses a database: Spingerlink gets 10 articles, Sage Pub gets 10 articles, and Google Schoolar gets 30 articles, limited from January 2015 to December 2020 with the inclusion criteria for adolescents aged 15-21 years (middle-adolescents end) who have smoking behavior. Of the 50 articles that were screened, 15 articles were researched.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>Results of the study:</em></strong><em> Smoking behavior in male adolescents is influenced by a lack of knowledge and a friendship environment that encourages the desire to smoke, in order to gain recognition or be accepted by their environment.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>Conclusion:</em></strong><em> Lack of knowledge and the friendship environment that encourages the desire to smoke, in order to get recognition or be accepted by the environment.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>Key words</em></strong><em>: Smoking Behavior, smoking factors, and smoking impact for adolescent</em></p>