Abstract Background The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), with a predominant 'youth
bulge'among its 54 million people, has witnessed an exponential increase in research …

Tobacco smoking is the most important preventable cause of cardiovascular disease. In this
paper we review current epidemiological and pathophysiological evidence linking smoking …

Background Tobacco use among young people still remains a major public health problem.
Thus, the aim of this study was to perform a cross-country comparison for the factors …

The present study aimed to estimate the prevalence of smoking status and its associated
factors in Iranian adolescents and a meta-analysis of recent cross-sectional studies in order …

Objectives To investigate the perceived factors leading to cigarette and waterpipe (ghelyan)
smoking initiation and maintenance in Iranian university students. Method A cross-sectional …

Aims To assess the impact of tobacco control policies relating to youth access, clean indoor
air and tobacco advertising at point‐of‐sale and outdoors, in addition to cigarette price and …

OBJECTIVE: Describe the prevalence of current cigarette smoking and other tobacco use
among 13–15year olds across 44 countries and 110 sites participating in the Global School …

Background To prevent adolescents from becoming smokers, it is essential to understand
factors that cause them to become susceptible to smoking (SS). The aim of this study was to …

Hookah use among adolescents is increasing globally. No prior studies in the published
literature have examined hookah use among youth in the Russian Federation. We assessed …

Objectives: The present study aimed to investigate the prevalence of smoking and
environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), the associated factors of current smoking among …