background: smoking and its related diseases account for annual death of 4 million people around the world. beliefs, attitude, subjective norms, enabling factors (basnef) model is considered as one of the comprehensive models of behavior study. the aim of the current study was to explain smoking among students living in dormitories of golestan university of medical sciences based on basnef mode...

aim and background: smoking and drugs are considered are among the most common causes of early mortality in developing and developed countries. health professionals believe that university period has special characteristics and is of high importance in prevention of smoking among young adults. in this study, we examined with the relations between smoking and psychological and demographic variab...

In the frame of the European Union project entitled EU-Families and Adolescents Quit Tobacco (www.eufaqt.eu) focus group analysis has been carried out in Hungary to acquire qualitative information on attitudes towards smoking in groups of adolescents, parents and educators, respectively. It rendered to identify methods for smoking prevention/ intervention with family approach. The results explo...

BACKGROUND Adolescents residing in low-income public housing developments in inner-city regions may be particularly vulnerable to a variety of risk factors associated with cigarette smoking. OBJECTIVE To elucidate the aetiology of cigarette smoking among adolescents living in public housing developments. DESIGN, SETTING, AND SUBJECTS We examined predictors of smoking from four domains: back...

The recent interest in cigarette smoking among university students has brought attention to problems concerning opinions, attitudes, prevention, health education, policy formulation and implementation. This survey research tested five hypotheses on the views of college students about smoking in school hallways and cafeteria, compliance with anti smoking laws, considering cigarette smoking as an...