Support for smoke-free policy, and awareness of tobacco health effects and use of smoking cessation therapy in a developing country

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Owusu Dabo, Ellis ^a,b,d   Lewis, Sarah ^a   McNeill, Ann ^a   Gilmore, Anna ^c   Britton, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^d KUMASI CENTRE FOR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POLICY; PUBLIC OPINION; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLIC POLICY; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960565368     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-572     Document Type: Article

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