Sexual orientation and women's smoking

Current Women's Health Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 254-261

  Hughes, Tonda L ^a   Jacobson, Kristin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; BISEXUALITY; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HETEROSEXUALITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LESBIAN; LIFESTYLE; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SMOKING HABIT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BISEXUALITY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK FACTORS; RISK-TAKING; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038166701     PISSN: 15345874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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