Attitudes toward anti-tobacco policy among California youth: Associations with smoking status, psychosocial variables and advocacy actions

Health Education Research

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 751-763

  Unger, Jennifer B ^a   Rohrbach, Louise Ann ^a   Howard, Kim Ammann ^b   Cruz, Tess Boley ^a   Johnson, C Anderson ^a   Chen, Xinguang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING HABIT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TOBACCO;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ATTITUDE; CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MALE; SMOKING;

EID: 0032762559     PISSN: 02681153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/her/14.6.751     Document Type: Article

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