Smoking prevention among youth
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Smoking behaviour among young adults: beyond youth prevention.
OBJECTIVE There is a widespread assumption that smoking behaviour is largely established by the age of 18 years. As a result, smoking prevention has focused almost exclusively upon youth. However, recent trends suggest that young adulthood may be an important--and largely overlooked--period in the development of regular smoking behaviour. The current study sought to examine patterns of tobacco ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medicinski podmladak
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0369-1527,2466-5525
DOI: 10.5937/mp71-28273