Have public smoking bans resulted in an improvement in quality of life?

Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 375-377

  Kabir, Zubair ^a   Arora, Monika ^b   Alpert, Hillel R ^c  

^a TobaccoFree Research Institute   (Ireland)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

childhood secondhand smoke; Framework Convention on Tobacco Control; inequality; smoke free home; smoking ban

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT AIR; CONTROL STRATEGY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE COST; PASSIVE SMOKING; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC SMOKING BAN; QUALITY OF LIFE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL CONTROL; SOCIAL SECURITY; TOBACCO;

HUMANS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESTAURANTS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 80051747741     PISSN: 14737167     EISSN: 17448379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/erp.11.35     Document Type: Editorial

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