The changing demographic of blunt smokers across birth cohorts

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Volumn 130, Issue 1-3, 2013, Pages 129-134

  Timberlake, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth cohorts; Blunts; Cannabis; Race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CANNABIS SMOKING; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MARIJUANA SMOKING; YOUNG ADULT;

CANNABIS; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84877081126     PISSN: 03768716     EISSN: 18790046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2012.10.022     Document Type: Article

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