Quantifying littered cigarette butts to measure effectiveness of smoking bans to building perimeters

Journal of American College Health

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 331-334

  Seitz, Christopher M ^a   Strack, Robert W ^a   Orsini, Muhsin Michael ^a   Rosario, Carrie ^a   Haugh, Christie ^a   Rice, Rebecca ^b   Wyrick, David L ^a   Wagner, Lorelei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b Guilford County Health ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

administration; community health; health education

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; SMOKING; STATISTICS; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; SMOKING; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84861078952     PISSN: 07448481     EISSN: 19403208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07448481.2011.609205     Document Type: Review

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