Smoking uptake and prevalence in Ghana

Tobacco Control

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 365-370

  Owusu Dabo, E ^a   Lewis, S ^a   McNeill, A ^a   Gilmore, A ^b   Britton, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL HEALTH; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349865339     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tc.2009.030635     Document Type: Article

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