Who is using snus? - Time trends, socioeconomic and geographic characteristics of snus users in the ageing Swedish population

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Norberg, Margareta ^a   Malmberg, Gunnar ^a   Ng, Nawi ^a   Broström, Göran ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE MALFORMATION SYNDROME; PIGMENT DISORDER; SMOKELESS TOBACCO; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SWEDEN; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADULT; CRANIOFACIAL ABNORMALITIES; DRUG USERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PIGMENTATION DISORDERS; SOCIAL CLASS; SWEDEN; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; TOBACCO, SMOKELESS;

EID: 83355161443     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-929     Document Type: Review

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