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Smoking habits of nurses.
There is little debate as to the harmful effects of cigarette smoking on health. Most health workers advise their patients to cease the practice. The impact of the advice is however diluted if it is seen to be ignored by the profess ionals themselves. As nurses play an in creasing role in all levels of health care a survey was undertaken to investigate the smoking habits of two groups of nurs...
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SIR,-I have read with great interest the article by Dr. T. Khosia and Professor C. R. Lowe (2 October, p. 10) on smoking and obesity. Our results at the Institute of Directors Medical Centre (Table) do not show the same relationship. There is no convincing difference between any of the smoking classes. The figures have not been broken down into age groups, but we have previously shown that in o...
متن کاملObesity and smoking habits.
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متن کاملComparison of smoking habits, knowledge, attitudes and tobacco control interventions between primary care physicians and nurses
BACKGROUND Primary care providers are uniquely positioned to initiate smoking cessation. We aimed to evaluate knowledge levels about the health effects of smoking and attitudes toward smoking and tobacco control activities among primary care providers. METHODS In the cross-sectional and primary care-based study, self-administered surveys modified from the WHO Global Health Professional Survey...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1973
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.49.576.693