"Smoke-free Class Competition": Far-reaching conclusions based on weak data

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 150-151

  Hanewinkel, Reiner ^a   Wiborg, Gudrun ^a   Isensee, Barbara ^a   Nebot, Manel ^b   Vartiainen, Erkki ^c  

^a IFT Nord   (Germany)

^b AGÈNCIA DE SALUT PÚBLICA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AWARDS AND PRIZES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); GERMANY; HUMANS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; SMOKING;

EID: 33746856872     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2006.03.015     Document Type: Letter

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