Kanagawa, Japan's tobacco control legislation: A Breakthrough?

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1909-1916

  Kashiwabara, Mina ^a   Armada, Francisco ^a   Yoshimi, Itsuro ^b  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b Tokyo Metropolitan Government Tokyo Metropolitan Hospitals Association Patient Safety Management   (Japan)

Author keywords

Health policy; Japan; Municipality; Ordinance; Secondhand smoke; Tobacco control

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858123005     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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