Comprehensive smoking bans and acute myocardial infarction among medicare enrollees in 387 US counties: 19992008

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 176, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 642-648

  Barr, Christopher D ^a   Diez, David M ^a   Wang, Yun ^a   Dominici, Francesca ^a   Samet, Jonathan M ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

environmental tobacco smoke; mixed effects models; secondhand smoke; smoking bans

Indexed keywords

HEALTH RISK; POISSON RATIO; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOBACCO;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICARE; MORBIDITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING BAN; SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAM; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MEDICARE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT ADMISSION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION; UNITED STATES;

EUROPE; UNITED STATES;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84866946195     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kws267     Document Type: Article

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