Tobacco control: Economic aspects of smoking

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 546-547

  Gallus, Silvano ^a   La Vecchia, Carlo ^a,b  

^a MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH HAZARD; LAW; NOTE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; TAX; TOBACCO CONTROL;

COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SMOKING; TAXES; TOBACCO;

EID: 84872418095     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.09.011     Document Type: Note

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