Pattern of tobacco use among the iranian adult population: Results of the national Survey of Risk Factors of Non-Communicable Diseases (SuRFNCD-2007)

Tobacco Control

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 125-128

  Meysamie, Alipasha ^a   Ghaletaki, Reza ^a   Haghazali, Mehrdad ^b   Asgari, Fereshteh ^b   Rashidi, Armin ^c   Khalilzadeh, Omid ^c   Esteghamati, Alireza ^c   Abbasi, Mehrshad ^c,d  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Centre for Disease Control and Management   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954487841     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tc.2009.030759     Document Type: Article

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