Smoking by adolescents: Three years later, there's even larger revenue but little for prevention

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 321-323

  Doran, Christopher M ^a   Girgis, Afaf ^a   Sanson Fisher, Rob W ^a  

^a NSW Cancer Cncl Cancer Educ R   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CIGARETTE SMOKING; ECONOMICS; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN;

EID: 0031779994     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.1998.tb01384.x     Document Type: Article

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