Prevalence of Tobacco Use in Urban, Semi Urban and Rural Areas in and around Chennai City, India

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Chockalingam, Kolappan ^a   Vedhachalam, Chandrasekaran ^a   Rangasamy, Subramani ^a   Sekar, Gomathi ^a   Adinarayanan, Srividya ^a   Swaminathan, Soumya ^a   Menon, Pradeep Aravindan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN TUBERCULOSIS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PASSIVE SMOKING; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKELESS TOBACCO; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CITIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION; TOBACCO USE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885030589     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076005     Document Type: Article

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