Knowledge about smoking, reasons for smoking, and reasons for wishing to quit in inner-city African Americans

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 385-393

  Ahluwalia, Jasjit S ^a,c   Resnicow, Ken ^b   Clark, W Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Inner City; Knowledge; Smoking; Smoking Cessation

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGENT; PLACEBO;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NEWBORN; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; AFRICAN AMERICANS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; PLACEBOS; POVERTY AREAS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032152662     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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