Correlates of current cigarette smoking among in-school adolescents in the Kurdistan region of Iraq |
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Authors: | Seter Siziya Adamson S Muula Emmanuel Rudatsikira |
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Affiliation: | (1) University of Zambia, School of Medicine, Lusaka, Zambia;(2) Department of Community Health, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi;(3) Departments of Global Health, Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Loma Linda University, California, USA |
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Background Many adult cigarette smokers initiated the habit as adolescents. Adolescent tobacco use may be a marker of other unhealthy behaviours. There are limited data on the prevalence and correlates of cigarette smoking among in-school adolescents in Iraq. We aimed to estimate the prevalence of, and assess the socio-demographic correlates of current cigarette smoking among in-school adolescents in Kurdistan region of Iraq. |
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