Smoking rates among gamblers at Nevada casinos mirror US smoking rate

Tobacco Control

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 82-85

  Pritsos, C A ^a   Pritsos, K L ^a   Spears, K E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

GAMBLING; HUMANS; NEVADA; SMOKING;

EID: 42149094439     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tc.2007.021196     Document Type: Article

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