Effects of a minimum-age tobacco law - Swedish experience

Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 501-510

  Sundh, Mona ^a   Hagquist, Curt ^a  

^a KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 29244476293     PISSN: 09687637     EISSN: 14653370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09687630500343095     Document Type: Review

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