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Puff or pass: do social media and social interactions influence smoking behaviour of university students? A cross-sectional mixed methods study from Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Naym Uddin RobyM Tasdik HasanSahadat HossainEnryka ChristopherMd Kapil AhmedAriful Bari ChowdhuryShahriar HasanFatema Ashraf
Published in: BMJ open (2020)
This study suggests social media and social interactions may influence smoking behaviour in university students in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Future research should continue to investigate the roles social media and social interaction have on smoking in order to explore social media-based smoking cessation interventions or dissemination of smoking health hazards through social media.
Keyphrases
  • social media
  • smoking cessation
  • health information
  • healthcare
  • mental health
  • replacement therapy
  • public health
  • physical activity
  • randomized controlled trial
  • study protocol
  • clinical trial