Tobacco control policy initiatives and UK resident Bangladeshi male smokers: Community-based, qualitative study

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 321-337

  Croucher, Ray ^a   Choudhury, Shamsur Rahman ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bangladeshis; Ethnic Minorities; Inequalities; Tobacco Control

Indexed keywords

CIGARETTE SMOKE; NICOTINE;

AGE STRUCTURE; ETHNIC MINORITY; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH RISK; LABOR POLICY; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPLACEMENT; SMOKING; SOCIAL POLICY; TOBACCO;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; NICOTINE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TOBACCO; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; UNITED KINGDOM; WORKPLACE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BANGLADESH; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIGION; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION; TOBACCO, SMOKELESS; WORKPLACE;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LONDON [ENGLAND]; TOWER HAMLETS; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ARECA CATECHU; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PIPER BETEL;

EID: 34248329017     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: 14653419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557850701300731     Document Type: Article

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