The effect of tobacco control policy on smoking cessation in relation to gender, age and education in Lithuania, 1994-2010

BMC Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Klumbiene, Jurate ^a   Sakyte, Edita ^a   Petkeviciene, Janina ^a   Prattala, Ritva ^b   Kunst, Anton E ^c  

^a LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Age; Education; Gender; Quit ratio; Smoking cessation; Tobacco control policy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; LITHUANIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX RATIO; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOBACCO; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LITHUANIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO; TOBACCO PRODUCTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924977171     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-1525-8     Document Type: Article

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