The health care costs of smoking

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 337, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 1052-1057

  Barendregt, Jan J ^a   Bonneux, Luc ^a   Van Der Maas, Paul J ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST OF ILLNESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COST SAVINGS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 0030884499     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199710093371506     Document Type: Article

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