Smoking susceptibility among never-smokers: Data from the 2006-07 national youth smoking survey

Canadian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 254-257

  Yang, Wiworn Sae ^a   Leatherdale, Scott T ^a,b   Ahmed, Rashid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b CANCER CARE ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alcohol use; Drug use; Multi level modeling; Smoking susceptibility; Social influences; Youth; Youth smoking survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961184444     PISSN: 00084263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03404043     Document Type: Article

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