Community reductions in youth smoking after raising the minimum tobacco sales age to 21

Tobacco Control

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 355-359

  Schneider, Shari Kessel ^a   Buka, Stephen L ^b   Dash, Kim ^a   Winickoff, Jonathan P ^c   Donnell, Lydia O ^a  

^a EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; MANAGEMENT; MASSACHUSETTS; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO; TRENDS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; COMMERCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; POLICY MAKING; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO PRODUCTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84931342795     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2014-052207     Document Type: Article

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