Smoking in Scottish youths: Personal income, parental social class and the cost of smoking

Tobacco Control

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 329-335

  West, Patrick ^a,b   Sweeting, Helen ^b   Young, Robert ^b  

^a Social and Public Health Sciences Unit   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COST; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; PARENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; PARENTS; RISK FACTORS; SCOTLAND; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 35048862940     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tc.2006.018721     Document Type: Article

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