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Individual, social and environmental determinants of smokeless tobacco and betel quid use amongst adolescents of Karachi: a school-based cross-sectional survey

BACKGROUND: With 600 million people using betel quid (BQ) globally, and smokeless tobacco (SLT) use being more wide-spread; the duo is an uphill public health concern in South Asian countries. SLT and/or BQ use increases the risk for morbidity and mortality from oral cancer. Because SLT and/or BQ us...

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Autores principales: Hussain, Azmina, Zaheer, Sidra, Shafique, Kashif
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5706393/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29183302
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4916-1