Switching to smokeless tobacco, the most common smoking cessation method: results from the Global Adult Tobacco Survey, India

Public Health

Volumn 136, Issue , 2016, Pages 172-174

  Mini, G K ^a   Thankappan, K R ^a  

^a SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMOKING; SURVEY; TOBACCO;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; NICOTINE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; PATIENT COUNSELING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKELESS TOBACCO; SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAM; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; MALE; PROCEDURES; SMOKING CESSATION; YOUNG ADULT;

INDIA;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO, SMOKELESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84964647494     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: 14765616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2016.03.035     Document Type: Article

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