Hardening the methods, a comment on Fagerström & Furberg 2008

Addiction

Volumn 103, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1576-

  Etter, Jean François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMORBIDITY; EUROPE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; LETTER; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SWEDEN; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; UNITED STATES;

BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 49249087787     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2008.02300.x     Document Type: Letter

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