New Zealand's smokefree prison policy appears to be working well: One year on

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 125, Issue 1357, 2012, Pages

  Collinson, Lucie ^a   Wilson, Nick ^a   Edwards, Richard ^a   Thomson, George ^a   Thornley, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE;

AIR QUALITY; CANADA; COOPERATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LETTER; NEW ZEALAND; NICOTINE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; POLICY; PRISON; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING CESSATION; SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAM; SWEDEN; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84863524230     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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