Open AccessTobacco use among adolescent students and the influence of role models
Author(s) -
Rahul Sharma,
Vijay L Grover,
Sanjay Chaturvedi
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
indian journal of community medicine/indian journal of community medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1998-3581
pISSN - 0970-0218
DOI - 10.4103/0970-0218.66891
Subject(s) - smokeless tobacco , logistic regression , tobacco use , medicine , demography , sister , environmental health , new delhi , smoke , cross sectional study , chi square test , cigarette smoking , test (biology) , geography , population , pathology , statistics , mathematics , metropolitan area , sociology , anthropology , paleontology , meteorology , biology
Seventy per cent of premature deaths among adults are due to behavioral patterns that emerge in adolescence, including smoking.