Associations between tobacco and cannabis use in remote indigenous populations in Northern Australia

Addiction

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 346-353

  Clough, Alan R ^a,b,c  

^a MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

'Gateway' hypothesis; Cannabis; Indigenous Australians; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DATA ANALYSIS; ETHNIC GROUP; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NATIVE SPECIES; PUBLIC HEALTH; REINFORCEMENT; SELF REPORT; TOBACCO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARIJUANA SMOKING; NORTHERN TERRITORY; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; SMOKING;

EID: 14944348648     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2005.01040.x     Document Type: Article

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