Cigarette smoking among university students in Greece: A comparison between medical and other students

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 115-120

  Alexopoulos, Evangelos C ^a   Jelastopulu, Eleni ^a   Aronis, Konstantinos ^a   Dougenis, Dimitris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Education; Medical students; Prevalence; Risk awareness; Smoking; Students; University

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BODY MASS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING HABIT; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

EID: 77649238725     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12199-009-0110-0     Document Type: Article

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