Smoking and adolescence : international public health experiences / Mazyanga L. Mazaba, Seter Siziya, and Joav Merrick, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Ch. 1 Smoking and adolescence / Joav Merrick -- Section One Smoking -- ch. 2 Prevalence and correlates for cigarette smoking among school-going adolescents: An international perspective from the global youth tobacco surveys / Seter Siziya -- ch. 3 Adolescent smoking in rural and urban areas in the Lusaka province, Zambia / Seter Siziya -- ch. 4 Tobacco smoking prevalence among in-school adolescents aged 13-15 years in Zambia / Selestine H Nzala -- ch. 5 Cigarette smoking among school-going adolescents / Adamson S Muula -- ch. 6 Predictors of cigarette smoking among adolescents / Pierson RT Ntata -- ch. 7 Cigarette smoking, school age adolescents and advertisement-promotion-sponsorship issues / Emmanuel Rudatsikira -- ch. 8 Gender differences in prevalence rates and predictors of cigarette smoking in adolescence / Adamson S Muula -- ch. 9 Cigarette smoking among adolescents in Malawi / Emmanuel Rudatsikira

Ch. 10 Adolescents and cigarette smoking in Somaliland / Adamson S Muula -- ch. 11 Cigarette smoking among adolescents in Ville de Suid, Cote d'Ivoire / Adamson S Muula -- ch. 12 Cigarette smoking behavior among Jordanian adolescents / Seter Siziya -- ch. 13 Cigarette smoking among adolescents in the Kurdistan region of Iraq / Emmanuel Rudatsikira -- ch. 14 Adolescent cigarette smoking in Greece / Christos Chadjichristodoulou -- ch. 15 Cigarette smoking among adolescents in Lithuania / Emmanuel Rudatsikira -- ch. 16 Cigarette smoking among adolescents in Punjab, India / Emmanuel Rudatsikira -- ch. 17 Cigarette smoking among adolescents in Thailand / Ronald H Mataya -- ch. 18 Adolescent cigarette smoking in Mongolia / Adamson S Muula -- ch. 19 Prevalence and correlates of current cigarette smoking among adolescents in East Timor-Leste / Emmanuel Rudatsikira

Ch. 20 Prevalence, correlates of and perceptions toward cigarette smoking among adolescents in South Korea / Seter Siziya -- ch. 21 Cigarette smoking and adolescents in Jamaica / Emmanuel Rudatsikira -- ch. 22 Tobacco and adolescents in Himachal Pradesh, India / Emmanuel Rudatsikira -- ch. 23 Adolescent cigarette smoking in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) / Seter Siziya -- ch. 24 Cigarette smoking, close friendship, sexual intercourse and adolescents in Mauritania / Seter Siziya -- ch. 25 A summary: Smoking and adolescence / Joav Merrick -- Section Two Acknowledgments -- ch. 26 About the editors -- ch. 27 About the World Health Organization in Zambia -- ch. 28 About the School of Medicine, Copperbelt University in Ndola, Zambia -- ch. 29 About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel -- ch. 30 About the book series "Public health: Practices, methods and policies" -- Section Three Index.

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