Tobacco control: A victim of political instability in Greece

The Lancet

Volumn 387, Issue 10016, 2016, Pages 338-339

  Filippidis, Filippos T ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOVERNMENT; GREECE; HUMAN; LETTER; POLITICS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SMOKING BAN; SMOKING REGULATION; TOBACCO; ECONOMIC RECESSION; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SOCIAL PROBLEM; TAX;

ECONOMIC RECESSION; GREECE; HUMANS; POLITICS; SMOKE-FREE POLICY; SMOKING; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; TAXES; TOBACCO PRODUCTS;

EID: 84959473839     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00110-0     Document Type: Letter

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