Nicotine dependence and its risk factors among users of veterans health services, 2008-2009

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Tsai, Jack ^a,b,c   Edens, Ellen L ^b,c   Rosenheck, Robert A ^a,b  

^a Education   (United States)

^b VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; UNITED STATES; VETERAN; VETERANS HEALTH;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; VETERANS; VETERANS HEALTH;

EID: 84857483412     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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