Explaining the convergence of male and female smoking prevalence in Australia

Addiction

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 487-495

  Morley, Katherine I ^a,b,c,d   Hall, Wayne D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ORYGEN RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Prevalence; Sex differences; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EXPERIMENTATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUSTRALIA; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 38849205369     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2007.02087.x     Document Type: Article

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