Smoking in Health Science Students with Asthma

Georgios Krommydas; Evangelia Kotrotsiou; Vasilios Raftopoulos; Theodosios Paralikas; Konstantinos I Gourgoulianis; Paschalis-Adam Molyvdas

doi:10.1155/2004/730183

Canadian Respiratory Journal (Jan 2004)

Smoking in Health Science Students with Asthma

Georgios Krommydas,
Evangelia Kotrotsiou,
Vasilios Raftopoulos,
Theodosios Paralikas,
Konstantinos I Gourgoulianis,
Paschalis-Adam Molyvdas

Affiliations

Georgios Krommydas: Lung Function Lab, Physiology Department, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Greece
Evangelia Kotrotsiou: Department of Nursing school, Faculty of Health Sciences, Technical Education Institute of Larissa, Greece
Vasilios Raftopoulos: Department of Nursing school, Faculty of Health Sciences, Technical Education Institute of Larissa, Greece
Theodosios Paralikas: Department of Nursing school, Faculty of Health Sciences, Technical Education Institute of Larissa, Greece
Konstantinos I Gourgoulianis: Pulmonary Department, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
Paschalis-Adam Molyvdas: Lung Function Lab, Physiology Department, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Greece

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2004/730183
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 7
pp. 476 – 476

Abstract

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It is expected that asthmatic students in a health science department would avoid the hazards of cigarette smoking due to the knowledge they gain through their studies. Surprisingly, health science students with asthma had a higher prevalence of smoking than their healthy colleagues.

Published in Canadian Respiratory Journal

ISSN: 1198-2241 (Print); 1916-7245 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the respiratory system
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/7503

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