Tobacco sales in pharmacies: Time to quit

Tobacco Control

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 35-38

  Hudmon, Karen Suchanek ^a,b   Fenlon, C M ^a   Corelli, R L ^b   Prokhorov, A V ^c   Schroeder, S A ^d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHARMACIST; PHARMACY; PHARMACY STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SMOKING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TOBACCO; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CALIFORNIA; COMMERCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARMACIES; PHARMACISTS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SMOKING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENTS, PHARMACY; TOBACCO;

EID: 31944433675     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tc.2005.012278     Document Type: Article

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