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Characteristics of cigarette smoking and quitting among university students in Syria 

Volume 39, Issue 2 , August 2004, Pages 330-336 doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2004.01.024
Jump to full article: Preventive Medicine, 2004-08-01

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Conclusions. Cigarette smoking is mainly a problem of male students, whose narghile smoking is likely to be dramatically increasing as well, sometimes practiced as a substitute for cigarettes. The findings that most smokers in this sample are interested in quitting smoking and have tried unsuccessfully to do so indicate that cessation support for youths in this country is urgently needed.

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