Comprehensive smoke-free policies attract more support from smokers in Europe than partial policies

European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 22, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages 10-16

  Mons, Ute ^a   Nagelhout, Gera E ^b,c   Guignard, Romain ^d   McNeill, Ann ^e   Van Den Putte, Bas ^f   Willemsen, Marc C ^b,c   Brenner, Hermann ^a   Pötschke Langer, Martina ^a   Breitling, Lutz P ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c STIVORO for a Smoke free Future   (Netherlands)

^d French Institute for Health Promotion and Health Education INPES   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CATERING SERVICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EUROPE; FRANCE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEGAL ASPECT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NETHERLANDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DATA COLLECTION; EUROPE; FRANCE; GERMANY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; NETHERLANDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESTAURANTS; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 84856836771     PISSN: 11011262     EISSN: 1464360X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckr202     Document Type: Article

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