Alcohol use, drunkenness and tobacco smoking in rural western Kenya
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Alcohol use, drunkenness and tobacco smoking in rural western Kenya.
OBJECTIVES To describe the prevalence of smoking and alcohol use and abuse in an impoverished rural region of western Kenya. METHODS Picked from a population-based longitudinal database of demographic and health census data, 72 292 adults (≥18 years) were asked to self-report their recent (within the past 30 days) and lifetime use of tobacco and alcohol and frequency of recent 'drunkenness'. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Tropical Medicine & International Health
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1360-2276
DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12066