Water pipe tobacco smoking among university students in Jordan

Nicotine and Tobacco Research

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 606-612

  Azab, Mohammed ^a   Khabour, Omar F ^a   Alkaraki, Almuthanna K ^a   Eissenberg, Thomas ^b,c   Alzoubi, Karem H ^a   Primack, Brian A ^d  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SYRIAN CENTER FOR TOBACCO STUDIES   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JORDAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SOCIAL ASPECT; STUDENT ATTITUDE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; JORDAN; MALE; SMOKING; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955245310     PISSN: 14622203     EISSN: 1469994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntq055     Document Type: Article

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