Anti-tobacco policy in schools: Upcoming preventive strategy or prevention myth? A review of 31 studies

Tobacco Control

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 295-301

  Galanti, Maria Rosaria ^a   Coppo, Alessandro ^b   Jonsson, Elin ^c   Bremberg, Sven ^c   Faggiano, Fabrizio ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PASSIVE SMOKING;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CURRICULUM; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PASSIVE SMOKING; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROCEDURES; SCHOOL; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CURRICULUM; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; SCHOOLS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STUDENTS; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 84902481801     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2012-050846     Document Type: Review

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