The economic costs of tobacco consumption in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Tobacco Control

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 434-436

  Albedah, Abdullah M N ^a   Khalil, Mohamed K M ^a  

^a Arabian Center for Tobacco Control   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PREMATURE MORTALITY; SAUDI ARABIA; SMOKING; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; TOBACCO USE;

COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY, PREMATURE; SAUDI ARABIA; SMOKING; TOBACCO USE; TOBACCO USE DISORDER;

EID: 84906272798     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2012-050665     Document Type: Article

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