Beliefs about tobacco use in African Americans

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 92-98

  Halbert, Chanita Hughes ^a,b   Gandy Jr , Oscar H ^c   Collier, Aliya ^a   Shaker, Lee ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Beliefs; Tobacco use

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH SURVEY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TELEPHONE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CULTURE; ENVIRONMENT; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33846900025     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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