Race moderates the effect of menthol cigarette use on short-term smoking abstinence

Nicotine and Tobacco Research

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 883-889

  Reitzel, Lorraine R ^a   Li, Yisheng ^a   Stewart, Diana W ^a   Cao, Yumei ^a   Wetter, David W ^a   Waters, Andrew J ^b   Vidrine, Jennifer I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MENTHOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCOME; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTHOL CIGARETTE; NEGRO; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOBACCO; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTHOL; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TOBACCO PRODUCTS; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890695212     PISSN: 14622203     EISSN: 1469994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ntr/nts335     Document Type: Article

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