Should smokers be offered assistance with stopping?

Addiction

Volumn 105, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1867-1869

  West, Robert ^a   Mcneill, Ann ^b   Britton, John ^b   Bauld, Linda ^c   Raw, Martin ^b   Hajek, Peter ^d   Arnott, Deborah ^e   Jarvis, Martin ^a   Stapleton, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e Action on Smoking and Health   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; EDITORIAL; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; ENGLAND; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 78649590399     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010.03111.x     Document Type: Editorial

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