Too many Japanese university students are still smoking tobacco

Although campus-wide smoking bans are slowly spreading throughout Japan, the uptake of these measures has been suboptimal and many Japanese university students continue to smoke. Educational facilities are in an ideal position to set positive examples for tobacco control, and the time is now right f...

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Autores principales: Smith, Derek R, Takahashi, Ken
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2596093/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19017385
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1617-9625-4-10
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description Although campus-wide smoking bans are slowly spreading throughout Japan, the uptake of these measures has been suboptimal and many Japanese university students continue to smoke. Educational facilities are in an ideal position to set positive examples for tobacco control, and the time is now right for more Japanese universities to actively encourage their students as health promotion advocates and role models for healthy behavior.
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spelling pubmed-25960932008-12-05 Too many Japanese university students are still smoking tobacco Smith, Derek R Takahashi, Ken Tob Induc Dis Letter to the Editor Although campus-wide smoking bans are slowly spreading throughout Japan, the uptake of these measures has been suboptimal and many Japanese university students continue to smoke. Educational facilities are in an ideal position to set positive examples for tobacco control, and the time is now right for more Japanese universities to actively encourage their students as health promotion advocates and role models for healthy behavior. BioMed Central 2008-11-18 /pmc/articles/PMC2596093/ /pubmed/19017385 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1617-9625-4-10 Text en Copyright © 2008 Smith and Takahashi; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Too many Japanese university students are still smoking tobacco
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2596093/
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