High prevalence of smoking in Northern Greece

Primary Care Respiratory Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 92-97

  Sichletidis, Lazaros T ^a   Chloros, Diamantis ^a   Tsiotsios, Ioannis ^a   Kottakis, Ioannis ^a   Kaiafa, Ourania ^a   Kaouri, Stella ^a   Karamanlidis, Alexandros ^a   Kalkanis, Dimitrios ^a   Posporelis, Sotirios ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adolescent smoking; Epidemiology; Medical doctors; Smoking; Teachers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING; STUDENT; TEACHER; TIME;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 33645123431     PISSN: 14714418     EISSN: 14751534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcrj.2006.01.004     Document Type: Article

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