Open AccessSmoking pattern among female college students in Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Author(s) -
Manal Koura,
Ahlam F Al-Dossary,
Ahmed A Bahnassy
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of family and community medicine/maǧalaẗ ṭib al-usraẗ wa al-muǧtamaʼ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.292
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2229-340X
pISSN - 1319-1683
DOI - 10.4103/2230-8229.83370
Subject(s) - medicine , stratified sampling , demography , curiosity , tobacco control , cigarette smoking , health education , systematic sampling , environmental health , family medicine , psychology , public health , nursing , social psychology , pathology , sociology
Smoking is the most important avoidable cause of premature morbidity and mortality in the world. The estimated annual death rate of 4.9 million people in 1999 is expected to rise to 10 million by the 2020s and 2030s, 7 million of which will occur in developing countries.