Women and Waterpipe Tobacco Smoking in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Allure or Offensiveness

Women and Health

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 100-116

  Khalil, Joanna ^a   Afifi, Rima ^a   Fouad, Fouad M ^b   Hammal, Fadi ^c   Jarallah, Yara ^d   Mohamed, Mostafa ^e   Nakkash, Rima ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

gender roles; qualitative research; sex appeal; waterpipe (hookah or shisha); women

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EGYPT; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; LEBANON; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; EGYPT; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LEBANON; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SYRIA; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84875885031     PISSN: 03630242     EISSN: 15410331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03630242.2012.753978     Document Type: Article

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