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Smoking among Japanese nursing students: a nationwide survey
  1. TAKASHI OHIDA,
  2. AIKO SAKURAI,
  3. AMM KAMAL,
  4. TOMOFUMI SONE,
  5. SHINJI TAKEMURA,
  6. FUJIKO FUKUSHIMA*
  1. Department of Public Health Administration
  2. National Institute of Public Health
  3. Department of Public Health Nursing *
  4. Tokyo, Japan
  5. tohida@iph.go.jp

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tc.10.4.397

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      Editor—In some developed countries including Japan, smoking prevalence among nursing students tends to be the same or higher than that of the general female population of the same age group.1-6 In Japan, an increase in the prevalence of smoking among women in their 20s was recently reported,7and this trend is assumed to be reflected in the smoking prevalence of nursing students, where young women are over represented.

      To obtain data on smoking prevalence of nursing students, a nationwide survey was conducted among the students of nursing (three year programme), public health nursing (PHN), and midwifery schools. Students of PHN and midwifery are qualified …

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