Adolescent smoking and health-related behaviours: interrelations in a Greek school-based sample.
Background Although several studies have reported findings concerning the interrelationshipbetween smoking and specific health behaviours, little research has investigated how smokingbehaviour may be associated with a cluster of health-related behaviours. The present study was aneffort to extend pre...
| Publicado en: | Child: Care, Health & Development Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 164 - 171 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2009
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