Do mobile phones replace cigarette smoking among teenagers? [2]

Tobacco Control

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 339-340

  Steggles, N ^a   Jarvis, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; CELLULAR PHONE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; SMOKING;

EID: 7644236065     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tc.12.3.339     Document Type: Letter

References (6)

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