The reliability and predictive validity of the heaviness of smoking index and its two components: Findings from the International Tobacco Control Four Country Study

Nicotine and Tobacco Research

Volumn 12, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages

  Borland, R ^a   Yong, H H ^a   O'Connor, R J ^b   Hyland, A ^b   Thompson, M E ^c  

^a CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

^b ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE PER DAY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; FEMALE; HEAVINESS OF SMOKING INDEX; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SMOKING CESSATION; SMOKING HABIT; TIME TO FIRST CIGARETTE OF THE DAY; TOBACCO;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; CANADA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTENTION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RECURRENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SELF EFFICACY; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957742102     PISSN: 14622203     EISSN: 1469994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntq038     Document Type: Article

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