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A systematic review of the prevalence and risk factors of smoking among Saudi adolescents

Ibrahim Alasqah, Ilias Mahmud, Leah East and Kim Usher
Saudi Medical Journal September 2019, 40 (9) 867-878; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.9.24477
Ibrahim Alasqah
From the College of Public Health and Health Informatics (Alasqah, Mahmud), Qassim University, Bukayriah, Qassim, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from the School of Health (Alasqah, Mahmud, East, Usher), University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia
BN, MN
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Ilias Mahmud
From the College of Public Health and Health Informatics (Alasqah, Mahmud), Qassim University, Bukayriah, Qassim, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from the School of Health (Alasqah, Mahmud, East, Usher), University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia
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Leah East
From the College of Public Health and Health Informatics (Alasqah, Mahmud), Qassim University, Bukayriah, Qassim, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from the School of Health (Alasqah, Mahmud, East, Usher), University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia
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Kim Usher
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vol. 40 no. 9 867-878
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.9.24477
PubMed 
31522213

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received May 18, 2019
  • Accepted August 8, 2019
  • Published online September 1, 2019.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Ibrahim Alasqah, BN, MN⇑,
  2. Ilias Mahmud, MPH, PhD,
  3. Leah East, BN (Hons), PhD and
  4. Kim Usher, MNSt, PhD
  1. From the College of Public Health and Health Informatics (Alasqah, Mahmud), Qassim University, Bukayriah, Qassim, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and from the School of Health (Alasqah, Mahmud, East, Usher), University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Ibrahim A. Alasqah, College of Public Health and Health Informatics, Qassim University, Qassim, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: i.alasqah{at}gmail.com ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0316-1374
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