Nondaily, Low-Rate Daily, and High-Rate Daily Smoking in Young Adults: A 17-Year Follow-Up

Nicotine and Tobacco Research

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 943-949

  Robertson, Lindsay ^a   Iosua, Ella ^a   McGee, Rob ^a   Hancox, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINGE DRINKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FREQUENCY; HUMAN; LEISURE; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SMOKING FREQUENCY; SMOKING HABIT; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; YOUNG ADULT; TOBACCO USE DISORDER;

ADULT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; NEW ZEALAND; SMOKING; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84964959514     PISSN: 14622203     EISSN: 1469994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntv167     Document Type: Article

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