Tobacco control policy and socio-economic inequalities in smoking in 27 European countries

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Volumn 165, Issue , 2016, Pages 79-86

  Bosdriesz, Jizzo R ^a   Willemsen, Marc C ^b,c   Stronks, Karien ^a   Kunst, Anton E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Alliance Smokefree Holland   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Europe; Inequality; Smoking cessation; Socio economic status; Tobacco control policy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERTISING; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; EUROPEAN UNION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LAW; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH MESSAGE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SMOKING BAN; SMOKING CESSATION; SMOKING HABIT; SOCIAL STATUS; ECONOMICS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPE; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OCCUPATIONS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84973869289     PISSN: 03768716     EISSN: 18790046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2016.05.020     Document Type: Article

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