Disparities between Public Health Educational Materials and the Scientific Evidence that Smokeless Tobacco Use Causes Cancer

Journal of Cancer Education

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 17-28

  Waterbor, John W ^a   Adams, Rex M ^b   Robinson, Joshua M ^b   Crabtree, Forrest G ^b   Accortt, Neil A ^c   Gilliland, M Janice ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b Dept of Orthodontics and Gnathology

^c Biostatistics Unit

^d Department of Psychology ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CONFERENCE PAPER; EDUCATION; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; LEUKOPLAKIA; LUNG CANCER; MOUTH CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKELESS TOBACCO; STOMACH CANCER;

EID: 2142713816     PISSN: 08858195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15430154jce1901_08     Document Type: Conference Paper

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