Reliability of adult self-reported smoking history: Data from the tobacco use supplement to the current population survey 2002-2003 cohort

Nicotine and Tobacco Research

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 952-960

  Soulakova, Julia N ^a   Hartman, Anne M ^b   Liu, Benmei ^b   Willis, Gordon B ^b   Augustine, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL ASPECT; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TOBACCO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SELF REPORT; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO PRODUCTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865070825     PISSN: 14622203     EISSN: 1469994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntr313     Document Type: Article

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