Cigarette smoking prevalence among school-going adolescents in two African capital cities: Kampala Uganda and Lilongwe Malawi

African Health Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 45-49

  Muula, Adamson S ^a   Mpabulungi, Lillian ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^b Care International ^*  (Uganda)

^c Uganda Parliamentary Services   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH; ADVERTIZING; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALAWI; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PASSIVE SMOKING; PREVALENCE; PUBLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UGANDA;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALAWI; MALE; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; STUDENTS; UGANDA; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 34547761740     PISSN: 16806905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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