Setting a challenging yet realistic smoking prevalence target for healthy people 2020: Learning from the California experience

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 556-559

  Mendez, David ^a,b   Warner, Kenneth E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Department of Health Management and Policy ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTORS; RISK-TAKING; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL MARKETING; TOBACCO USE DISORDER;

EID: 40449105941     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.107441     Document Type: Article

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