Despite reduced prevalence of smoking the onset age is still dropping: Representative data for tendencies and correlates of initiation behaviour of adolescents in Germany;Trotz rückläufiger rauchprävalenzen immer früherer erstkonsum: Repräsentativdaten zu tendenzen und korrelaten des einstiegsverhaltens jugendlicher in Deutschland

Arbeitsmedizin Sozialmedizin Umweltmedizin

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 443-449

  Schneider, Sven ^a,b,c   Klein, Th ^c   Janssen M ^a   Mohnen, S M ^d  

^a Mannheimer Institut für Public Health Sozial and Präventivmedizin MIPH   (Netherlands)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Average age of starting to smoke; Cigarette smoking; Initiation; Onset age

Indexed keywords

EID: 53049098473     PISSN: 09446052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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