Relationships between hand-rolled cigarettes and primary lung cancer: A Norwegian experience

Clinical Respiratory Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 152-160

  Rolke, Heidi Berg ^a   Bakke, Per Sigvald ^b   Gallefoss, Frode ^a  

^a SØRLANDET HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Hand rolled cigarettes; Nicotine concentration; Primary pulmonary carcinoma; Smoking

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORWAY; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TOBACCO;

EID: 68949162160     PISSN: 17526981     EISSN: 1752699X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-699X.2008.00125.x     Document Type: Article

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