Linking Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) Data to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC): The Case for Lebanon

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue SUPPL.1, 2008, Pages

  Saade, Georges ^a   Warren, Charles W ^b   Jones, Nathan R ^b   Asma, Samira ^b   Mokdad, Ali ^b  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Tobacco; Tobacco control; Waterpipe "narguileh"; Youth

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT SMOKING; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LAW; LEBANON; PERSONAL MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TEACHING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEBANON; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 51649129957     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2008.06.003     Document Type: Article

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