Prevalence of cigarette and bidi smoking among rickshaw pullers in Dhaka city

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 218-222

  Rahman, Mahbubur ^a   Nurullah Awal, ASM ^b   Fukui, Tsuguya ^c   Sakamoto, Junichi ^d  

^a MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^c ST LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bidi; Cigarette; Dhaka; Rickshaw pullers; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BIDI SMOKING; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BANGLADESH; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SMOKING; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; TRANSPORTATION; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 33847325306     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2006.11.001     Document Type: Article

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