Most smokeless tobacco use is not a causal gateway to cigarettes: Using order of product use to evaluate causation in a national US sample

Addiction

Volumn 98, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1077-1085

  Kozlowski, Lynn T ^a   O'Connor, Richard J ^a   Edwards, Beth Quinio ^a   Flaherty, Brian P ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gateway; Risk factors; Smokeless tobacco; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION; RISK FACTOR; SHORT SURVEY; SMOKELESS TOBACCO; SMOKING CESSATION; SMOKING HABIT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SWEDEN; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; TOBACCO, SMOKELESS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0043205970     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1360-0443.2003.00460.x     Document Type: Article

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