Curtailing tobacco use: Fi rst we need to know the numbers

The Lancet

Volumn 380, Issue 9842, 2012, Pages 629-630

  Koplan, Jeffrey P ^a   MacKay, Judith ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b World Lung Foundation   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DISEASE CONTROL; EGYPT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HONG KONG; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; NOTE; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SMOKING; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; FEMALE; MALE; SMOKELESS TOBACCO;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SMOKING; TOBACCO, SMOKELESS;

EID: 84865130634     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61307-5     Document Type: Note

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