Cigarette sales to women and children in urban Thailand

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 220-226

  Jirojwong, Sansnee ^a  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVALENCE; THAILAND;

EID: 0042567441     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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