Why choose lent for a "Smoke out day?" changing smoking behavior in Croatia

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 132-136

  Čivljak, Marta ^a   Ulovec, Zlatko ^b   Soldo, Dragan ^a   Posavec, Marija ^c   Orešković, Stipe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c Zagreb Institute of Public Health   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CROATIA; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; RELIGION; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; AGED; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CATHOLICISM; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROATIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS MEDIA; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 15744391439     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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