Urban chinese smokers from lower socioeconomic backgrounds face more barriers to quitting: Results from the international tobacco control-china survey

Nicotine and Tobacco Research

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1044-1051

  Yong, Hua Hie ^a   Siahpush, Mohammad ^b   Borland, Ron ^a   Li, Lin ^a   O'Connor, Richard J ^c   Yang, Jilan ^d   Fong, Geoffrey T ^d,e   Jiang, Yuan ^e,f  

^a CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^e ONTARIO INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Canada)

^f CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING CESSATION; SMOKING HABIT; SOCIAL STATUS; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; URBAN AREA; ADOLESCENT; CHINA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF CONCEPT; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF EFFICACY; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; URBAN HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877825440     PISSN: 14622203     EISSN: 1469994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ntr/nts234     Document Type: Article

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