Clinical practice and the tobacco epidemic: Relevance of a global public health problem in the clinical setting

Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1513-1515

  Steliga, Matthew A ^a   Dresler, Carolyn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

lung cancer; smoking cessation; tobacco; tobacco epidemiology

Indexed keywords

CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DRUG METABOLISM; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE;

EPIDEMICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MALE; NICOTINE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STEREOTYPING; TOBACCO; TOBACCO USE DISORDER;

EID: 77958052158     PISSN: 14737140     EISSN: 17448328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/era.10.149     Document Type: Editorial

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