What accounts for the association of education and smoking cessation?

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 452-460

  Wetter, David W ^a   Cofta Gunn, Ludmila ^a   Irvin, Jennifer E ^a   Fouladi, Rachel T ^b   Wright, Kelli ^a   Daza, Patricia ^a   Mazas, Carlos ^a   Cinciripini, Paul M ^a   Gritz, Ellen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer prevention; Education; Smoking cessation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLLEGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; EMPLOYEE; FEMALE; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING CESSATION; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES;

EID: 7644238949     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2004.07.001     Document Type: Article

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