Smoking prevalence and smoking attributable mortality in Italy, 2010

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 434-438

  Gallus, Silvano ^a   Muttarak, Raya ^a,b   Martínez Sánchez, Jose M ^c,d   Zuccaro, Piergiorgio ^e   Colombo, Paolo ^f   La Vecchia, Carlo ^a,g  

^a MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^f Gallup International Association   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Italy; Population survey; Smoking attributable mortality; Tobacco smoking

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 79957886472     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2011.03.011     Document Type: Article

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