Cessation among smokers of "light" cigarettes: Results from the 2000 National Health Interview Survey

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 96, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1498-1504

  Tindle, Hilary A ^a,b   Rigotti, Nancy A ^c,d   Davis, Roger B ^b,c   Barbeau, Elizabeth M ^b   Kawachi, Ichiro ^b   Shiffman, Saul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE; TAR; TOBACCO TAR;

ABSTINENCE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK REDUCTION; SMOKING CESSATION; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHEMISTRY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TOBACCO; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NICOTINE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TARS; TOBACCO; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; TOBACCO USE CESSATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33746755494     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.072785     Document Type: Article

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