Impacts of early smoking initiation: Long-term trends of lung cancer mortality and smoking initiation from repeated cross-sectional surveys in Great Britain

BMJ Open

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Funatogawa, Ikuko ^a   Funatogawa, Takashi ^b   Yano, Eiji ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHUGAI PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MALE; SMOKING; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84869828023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2012-001676     Document Type: Article

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