Hookah Smoking: Behaviors and Beliefs among Young Consumers in the United States
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Hookah smoking: behaviors and beliefs among young consumers in the United States.
Hookah smoking is growing in popularity among college-age students in the United States. Community-based, semistructured, in-depth interviews were conducted with 20 college-age individuals who had used a hookah to smoke tobacco. A structured analysis of responses was conducted and framed in terms of the health belief model's four main constructs. Although hookah smokers were aware of the potent...
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عنوان ژورنال: Social Work in Public Health
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1937-1918,1937-190X
DOI: 10.1080/19371918.2011.619443