Impact of Scotland's Comprehensive, Smoke-Free Legislation on Stroke

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Mackay, Daniel F ^a   Haw, Sally ^b   Newby, David E ^c   Langhorne, Peter ^a   Lloyd, Suzanne M ^a   McConnachie, Alex ^a   Pell, Jill P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR QUALITY CONTROL; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LAW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SMOKING BAN; THROMBOSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN AREA;

AGE FACTORS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; SCOTLAND; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STROKE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84877258566     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062597     Document Type: Article

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