The fourth pillar of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Harm reduction and the international human right to health

Public Health Reports

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 494-500

  Meier, Benjamin Mason ^a,b   Shelley, Donna ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

CIGARETTE SMOKING; HARM REDUCTION; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TOBACCO; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; ARTICLE; HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STANDARD; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

HARM REDUCTION; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; NICOTINE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33749044176     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: 00333549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003335490612100503     Document Type: Short Survey

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