Menthol cigarettes and smoking cessation among racial/ethnic groups in the United States

Addiction

Volumn 105, Issue SUPPL.1, 2010, Pages 84-94

  Trinidad, Dennis R ^a   Pérez Stable, Eliseo J ^b   Messer, Karen ^c   White, Martha M ^c   Pierce, John P ^c  

^a CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cessation; Race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

MENTHOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTHOL; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955021471     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010.03187.x     Document Type: Article

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