Time trends of cigarette and waterpipe smoking among a cohort of school children in Irbid, Jordan, 2008-11

• Published in: European journal of public health Vol. 23; no. 5; pp. 862 - 867
• Main Authors: McKelvey, Karma L, Wilcox, Meredith L, Madhivanan, Purnima, Mzayek, Fawaz, Khader, Yousef S, Maziak, Wasim
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Oxford Publishing Limited (England) 01.10.2013; Oxford University Press
• Subjects: Adolescent; Child; Children & youth; Cigarettes; Cohort Studies; Female; Girls; Health care; Humans; Intervention; Jordan - epidemiology; Longitudinal Studies; Male; Miscellaneous; Schools; Sex Factors; Smoking; Smoking - epidemiology; Smoking - trends; Smoking Prevention; Students - psychology; Students - statistics & numerical data; Teenagers; Tobacco Products; Tobacco Use Disorder; Trends; Jordan (country); Irbid Jordan

Coordinated high-impact interventions and community-level changes in smoking behaviour norms effectively reduced prevalence of smoking among youth in many developed countries. Smoking trends among Jordanian adolescents are likely different than their Western counterparts and must be understood in th...