Cigarette and waterpipe smoking associated knowledge and behaviour among medical students in Lebanon;Consommation de cigarettes, utilisation de pipes à eau et connaissances et comportements associés chez des étudiants en médecine au Liban

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 861-868

  Jradi, H ^a   Wewers, M E ^b   Pirie, P P ^b   Binkley, P F ^b   Ferketich, A K ^b  

^a KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL SURVEY; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LEBANON; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NICOTINE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; TRAINING; WATERPIPE SMOKING;

EID: 84929325810     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.26719/2013.19.10.861     Document Type: Article

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