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Potential roles of school administrators and community-residing adults in tobacco use prevention in Nigerian college students: a viewpoint
Tobacco use is a key risk factor for the development of non-communicable diseases such as coronary heart disease, stroke, and peripheral vascular disease. On May 31 every year, World No Tobacco Day is celebrated to draw attention to the health risks and other risks related to tobacco use and to camp...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6259410/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30207177 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0300060518798254 |
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author | Nwobi, Anthonia U. Eseadi, Chiedu Agboeze, Mathias U Okoye, Onyinyechi E Iremeka, Felicia Ukamaka Mbagwu, Felicia Ohia, Nkiru Christiana Nwaubani, Okechukwu O. Oboegbulem, Angie I. Akaneme, Immaculata N. |
author_facet | Nwobi, Anthonia U. Eseadi, Chiedu Agboeze, Mathias U Okoye, Onyinyechi E Iremeka, Felicia Ukamaka Mbagwu, Felicia Ohia, Nkiru Christiana Nwaubani, Okechukwu O. Oboegbulem, Angie I. Akaneme, Immaculata N. |
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description | Tobacco use is a key risk factor for the development of non-communicable diseases such as coronary heart disease, stroke, and peripheral vascular disease. On May 31 every year, World No Tobacco Day is celebrated to draw attention to the health risks and other risks related to tobacco use and to campaign for effective policies to minimize tobacco use. In this paper, we address important issues related to tobacco use, and highlight the potential roles of school administrators and community-residing adults in supporting college students in Nigeria in refraining from tobacco use. We argue that various stakeholders, including school administrators and community-residing adults, have important roles to play in providing community- and school-level support to college students to enable them to refrain from tobacco use. However, research is needed to empirically measure whether and how school administrators and community-residing adults have helped to reduce tobacco use in college students in Nigeria. |
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spelling | pubmed-62594102018-11-30 Potential roles of school administrators and community-residing adults in tobacco use prevention in Nigerian college students: a viewpoint Nwobi, Anthonia U. Eseadi, Chiedu Agboeze, Mathias U Okoye, Onyinyechi E Iremeka, Felicia Ukamaka Mbagwu, Felicia Ohia, Nkiru Christiana Nwaubani, Okechukwu O. Oboegbulem, Angie I. Akaneme, Immaculata N. J Int Med Res Reviews Tobacco use is a key risk factor for the development of non-communicable diseases such as coronary heart disease, stroke, and peripheral vascular disease. On May 31 every year, World No Tobacco Day is celebrated to draw attention to the health risks and other risks related to tobacco use and to campaign for effective policies to minimize tobacco use. In this paper, we address important issues related to tobacco use, and highlight the potential roles of school administrators and community-residing adults in supporting college students in Nigeria in refraining from tobacco use. We argue that various stakeholders, including school administrators and community-residing adults, have important roles to play in providing community- and school-level support to college students to enable them to refrain from tobacco use. However, research is needed to empirically measure whether and how school administrators and community-residing adults have helped to reduce tobacco use in college students in Nigeria. SAGE Publications 2018-09-12 2018-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6259410/ /pubmed/30207177 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0300060518798254 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Reviews Nwobi, Anthonia U. Eseadi, Chiedu Agboeze, Mathias U Okoye, Onyinyechi E Iremeka, Felicia Ukamaka Mbagwu, Felicia Ohia, Nkiru Christiana Nwaubani, Okechukwu O. Oboegbulem, Angie I. Akaneme, Immaculata N. Potential roles of school administrators and community-residing adults in tobacco use prevention in Nigerian college students: a viewpoint |
title | Potential roles of school administrators and community-residing adults in tobacco use prevention in Nigerian college students: a viewpoint |
title_full | Potential roles of school administrators and community-residing adults in tobacco use prevention in Nigerian college students: a viewpoint |
title_fullStr | Potential roles of school administrators and community-residing adults in tobacco use prevention in Nigerian college students: a viewpoint |
title_full_unstemmed | Potential roles of school administrators and community-residing adults in tobacco use prevention in Nigerian college students: a viewpoint |
title_short | Potential roles of school administrators and community-residing adults in tobacco use prevention in Nigerian college students: a viewpoint |
title_sort | potential roles of school administrators and community-residing adults in tobacco use prevention in nigerian college students: a viewpoint |
topic | Reviews |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6259410/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30207177 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0300060518798254 |
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