Health and nuisance impacts from outdoor smoking on public transport users: Data from Auckland and Wellington

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 125, Issue 1360, 2012, Pages 88-91

  Russell, Marie ^a   Wilson, Nick ^a   Thomson, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOVERNMENT; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LETTER; NEW ZEALAND; RAILWAY; SMOKING; TELEPHONE; TEXT MESSAGING; TIME; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PUBLIC OPINION; SMOKING; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION; TRANSPORTATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865487312     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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