The validity of self-reports of smoking: Analyses by race/ethnicity in a school sample of urban adolescents

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 56-61

  Wills, Thomas A ^a   Cleary, Sean D ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE;

AIR ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DATA ANALYSIS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; EXPIRED AIR; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; SELF REPORT;

EID: 0031026556     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.87.1.56     Document Type: Article

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