Exposure of pre-school children to passive cigarette and narghile smoke in Beirut

European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 509-512

  Tamim, Hala ^a,b,d   Akkary, Ghassan ^b   El Zein, Abbas ^b,c   El Roueiheb, Zana ^b   El Chemaly, Souheil ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Narghile; Passive smoking; Pre school age children

Indexed keywords

CIGARETTE SMOKE;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DEVICE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; LEBANON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NARGHILE SMOKING; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PASSIVE SMOKING; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKE; SMOKING HABIT; SOCIAL ASPECT;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEBANON; MALE; PARENTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMOKING; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 33749575856     PISSN: 11011262     EISSN: 1464360X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckl043     Document Type: Article

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