Religiosity, school connectedness, and tobacco use susceptibility: a longitudinal study of adolescents in Mumbai and Kolkata, India
Encouraging religiosity and school connectedness may help reduce adolescent susceptibility to tobacco use in India.
Authors
- Namrata Puntambekar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4797-7463)
- William J. McCarthy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8296-7765)
- Ritesh Mistry (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1514-1466)
- Michael Kleinsasser (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7897-8231)
- Prakash C. Gupta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1265-0372)
- Trivellore E. Raghunathan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3054-9833)
- Mangesh S. Pednekar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6266-5356)
- Maruti B Desai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9030-7078)
Institutions
- Cancer Prevention Institute of California (US)
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- University of Michigan (US)
- Healis Sekhsaria Institute For Public Health (IN)
- Fielding Graduate University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Public Health
- Published
- 2025-11-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-25035-7
- Primary Topic
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00