An international comparison of tobacco smoking, beliefs and risk awareness in university students from 23 countries

Addiction

Volumn 97, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1561-1571

  Steptoe, Andrew ^a   Wardle, Jane ^a   Cui, Weiwei ^a   Baban, Adriana ^b   Glass, Kelli ^c   Pelzer, Karl ^d   Tsuda, Akira ^e   Vinck, Jan ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO   (South Africa)

^e KURUME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cigarette smoking; Health beliefs; International health; Risk awareness; Sex differences; Tobacco; University students

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COLLEGE STUDENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING HABIT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CULTURE; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; STUDENTS;

EID: 0036917726     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1360-0443.2002.00269.x     Document Type: Article

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