Hardcore smokers in a challenging tobacco controlenvironment: The case of Missouri

Tobacco Control

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 388-390

  Sorg, Amy ^a,b   Xu, James ^a   Doppalapudi, Syamsundara Babu ^a   Shelton, Sarah ^b   Harris, Jenine K ^b,c  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PASSIVE SMOKING; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MISSOURI; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION; TOBACCO USE DISORDER;

EID: 84860388880     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tc.2010.039743     Document Type: Letter

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