The smoking population in the USA and EU is softening not hardening

Tobacco Control

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 470-475

  Kulik, Margarete C ^a   Glantz, Stanton A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EUROPE; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKELESS TOBACCO; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; TOBACCO; UNITED STATES;

ELECTRONIC NICOTINE DELIVERY SYSTEMS; EUROPE; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS; TOBACCO PRODUCTS; TOBACCO, SMOKELESS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84932609956     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2015-052329     Document Type: Article

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