Tobacco consumpation: Is it still a dilemma?

Annals of Thoracic Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 193-194

  Al Moamary, Mohamed S ^a  

^a KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; SAUDI ARABIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING HABIT; STUDENT; TOBACCO; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 77956991541     PISSN: 18171737     EISSN: 19983557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1817-1737.69103     Document Type: Editorial

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