Beware of allowing the ideal to be the enemy of the good

Addiction

Volumn 106, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1555-1556

  Gartner, Coral ^a   Hall, Wayne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Evaluation; RCT; Tobacco policy

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

HUMANS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 79961120452     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2011.03478.x     Document Type: Note

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