Cigarette smoking behavior among South African Indian high school students

Journal of Family and Community Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 51-57

  Bayat, Mahomed ^a   Pillay, Basil J ^b   Cassimjee, Mohammed H ^b  

^a University of Natal ^*  (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

attitudes; experimentation and South Africa.; knowledge; Smoking Behavior; students

Indexed keywords

EID: 1442294384     PISSN: 22308229     EISSN: 2229340X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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