title: Smoking in health science students with asthma.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Physiology Department, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece. gckromm@yahoo.gr
authors.forename: Georgios
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Krommydas
authors.forename: Evangelia
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kotrotsiou
authors.forename: Vasilios
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Raftopoulos
authors.forename: Theodosios
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Paralikas
authors.forename: Konstantinos I
authors.initials: KI
authors.lastname: Gourgoulianis
authors.forename: Paschalis-Adam
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Molyvdas
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001249:Asthma / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002170:Canada / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*