The gap in tobacco use between remote Indigenous Australian communities and the Australian population can be closed

Tobacco Control

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 335-336

  Clough, A R ^a   Robertson, J A ^a   MacLaren, D J ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; NORTHERN TERRITORY; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69149085179     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tc.2009.030577     Document Type: Letter

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