Exploring the use of little cigars by students at a historically black university

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Jolly, David H ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANNABIS SMOKING; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; SMOKING; STUDENT; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MARIJUANA SMOKING; SMOKING; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84978402738     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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