A 10-yr study of smokeless tobacco use in a professional baseball organization

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1204-1207

  Sinusas, Keith ^a   Coroso, Joseph G ^b  

^a MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Club   (United States)

Author keywords

Leukoplakia; Oral pathology; Sports; Tobacco cessation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASEBALL; EDUCATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LEUKOPLAKIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SMOKELESS TOBACCO; SMOKING CESSATION;

BASEBALL; FLORIDA; HUMANS; LEUKOPLAKIA, ORAL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TOBACCO, SMOKELESS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745812045     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.mss.0000227303.80783.46     Document Type: Article

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