'These things don't happen in Greece': A qualitative study of Greek young people's attitudes to smoking, secondhand smoke and the smokefree legislation

Health Education Research

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 955-964

  Tamvakas, Ioannis ^a   Amos, Amanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; PASSIVE SMOKING; SMOKING;

ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; SMOKING; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649254509     PISSN: 02681153     EISSN: 14653648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/her/cyq048     Document Type: Article

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