"I only smoke when I have nothing to do": A qualitative study on how smoking is part of everyday life in a Greenlandic village

International Journal of Circumpolar Health

Volumn 72, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages

  Birgitte Jensen, Anne ^a   Hounsgaard, Lise ^b,c  

^a Queen Ingrid's Hospital   (Greenland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREENLAND   (Greenland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Ethnographic design; Greenland; Self stigmatisation; Smoking behaviour; Smoking cessation; Withdrawal symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARCTIC; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; BOREDOM; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GREENLAND; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL STIGMA; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ARCTIC REGIONS; BEHAVIOR; BOREDOM; FEMALE; GREENLAND; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL STIGMA; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 84881287808     PISSN: 12399736     EISSN: 22423982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/ijch.v72i0.21657     Document Type: Article

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