Increased levels of cigarette use among college students: A cause for national concern

JAMA

Volumn 280, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 1673-1678

  Wechsler, Henry ^a   Rigotti, Nancy A ^b   Gledhill Hoyt, Jeana ^a   Lee, Hang ^c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COLLEGE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032544946     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.280.19.1673     Document Type: Article

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