The effect of enforcing tobacco-sales laws on adolescents' access to tobacco and smoking behavior

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 337, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 1044-1051

  Rigotti, Nancy A ^a   DiFranza, Joseph R ^b   Chang, YuChiao ^a   Tisdale, Thelma ^a   Kemp, Becky ^a   Singer, Daniel E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; HEALTH PROGRAM; LAW; MARKETING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; COMMERCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; SMOKING; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

EID: 0030961048     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199710093371505     Document Type: Article

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