Correlates of smoking, quit attempts and attitudes towards total smoking bans at university: Findings from eleven faculties in Egypt

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2547-2556

  El Ansari, Walid ^a   Labeeb, Shokria ^b   Kotb, Safaa ^b   Yousafzai, Mohammad T ^c   El Houfey, Amira ^b   Stock, Christiane ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b Assiut University   (Egypt)

^c HAMAD MEDICAL CORPORATION   (Qatar)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Agreement with smoking ban; Egypt; Quitting smoking; Smoking; University students

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874103786     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7314/APJCP.2012.13.6.2547     Document Type: Article

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