The relative risk to health from snus and cigarettes: Response to grimsrud et al.'s commentary on "perceptions of the relative harmfulness of snus among Norwegian general practitioners and their effect on the tendency to recommend snus in smoking cessation"

Nicotine and Tobacco Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 304-305

  Lund, Ingeborg ^a   Scheffels, Janne ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR ALCOHOL AND DRUG RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LETTER; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SNUS; TOBACCO;

GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO, SMOKELESS;

EID: 84871533801     PISSN: 14622203     EISSN: 1469994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ntr/nts190     Document Type: Letter

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