Nurse Education Today
Volume 24, Issue 2 , Pages 145-151 , February 2004

Nursing students’ perceptions of smoking prevention

  • Orna Baron-Epel

      Affiliations

    • The Cheryl Spencer Department of Nursing, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Studies, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel 31095, Israel
    • Israel Center for Disease Control, Ministry of Health, Tel-Hashomer, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +972-4-828-8009; fax: +972-4-828-8017
    • ,
  • Karen Josephsohn

      Affiliations

    • The Cheryl Spencer Department of Nursing, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Studies, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel 31095, Israel
    • ,
  • Mali Ehrenfeld

      Affiliations

    • Head of the Nursing Department, Tel Aviv University, Israel

,Accepted 6 November 2003.

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PII: S0260-6917(03)00162-X

doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2003.11.001

Nurse Education Today
Volume 24, Issue 2 , Pages 145-151 , February 2004

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