Smoking habits among the hospital staff of a General Hospital in Northern Greece: A long way for smoke-free hospitals

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease - Pulmonary Series

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 160-164

  Vagropoulos, Ioannis ^a   Tsilchorozidou, T ^b   Tsinopoulos, G ^a   Salonikidou, Z ^a   Mouratova, M ^a   Giavropoulou, M ^a   Grigoriadis, N ^a  

^a General District Hospital of Serres   (Greece)

^b AHEPA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Smoke free hospitals; Smoking behaviour; Tobacco policy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; GREECE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING CESSATION; SMOKING HABIT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WORKPLACE;

EID: 33846414668     PISSN: 11220643     EISSN: 2465101X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/monaldi.2006.562     Document Type: Article

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