Health improvement in Poland is contingent on continued extensive tobacco control measures

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 405-411

  Zatoński, Witold ^a   Zatoński, Mateusz ^b   Przewoźniak, Krzysztof ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

^b Health Promotion Foundation   (Poland)

Author keywords

Health; New EU directive; Tobacco caused diseases

Indexed keywords

ADVERTIZING; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CANCER MORTALITY; COST; EUROPEAN UNION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LUNG CANCER; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; SMOKING BAN; SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAM; SMOKING REGULATION; TAX;

ADULT; EUROPEAN UNION; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; LEGISLATION AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLAND; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84878944801     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: 18982263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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