Background: Studentship period is a time when most behavioral traits are being created and
fixed; this is a special time when students may start smoking. Thus in the present research …

Background Smoking has physical, psychological, and social impacts on women's health
and subsequentlythe community's health. Therefore, it is important to have an estimation of …

Background & objectives: The cigarette and water pipe smoking is a public health problem.
Many studies have been performed on prevalence of cigarette and water pipe smoking and …

Background: Lung cancer is one of the most common cancers and most frequent cause of
cancer-related death worldwide. In Iran, this cancer ranks second in cancerrelated deaths …

Background: In India, 42 million people suffer from thyroid diseases. One in 10 adults suffer
from hypothyroidism. Although coverage of iodized salt utilization has increased after …

Introduction: Smoking is one of the most important risk factors of noninfectious diseases. The
period of studying at the university, with its specific characteristics from the view point of …

Background & Objectives: Considering the prevalence of cigarette and hookah smoking
among adolescents and the need to identify the components and dimensions of such …

Background: Students, clergymen and teachers as role models can be very important in
encouragement or prevention of cigarette smoking in young people. The aim of this study …

Background: Smoking hookah habit among the young is rising and it is necessary to pay
more attention to this problem. This study aimed to determine the attitude, subjective norms …

Background: To compare the level of knowledge, the attitudes, and practices with regards to
tobacco use between Iranian students at a public (PBU) and Islamic Azad (IAU) university …