Attitudes, practices and beliefs towards worksite smoking among administrators of private and public enterprises in Armenia

Tobacco Control

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 274-278

  Movsisyan, Narine K ^a   Thompson, Michael E ^b   Petrosyan, Varduhi ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA   (Armenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; ADULT; AGED; ARMENIA; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PASSIVE SMOKING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SMOKING; WORKPLACE;

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; ADULT; AGED; ARMENIA; DATA COLLECTION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIVATE SECTOR; PUBLIC SECTOR; SMOKING; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION; WORKPLACE;

EID: 77955295419     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tc.2009.031658     Document Type: Article

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