Flavoured tobacco products and the public’s health: Lessons from the TPSAC menthol report

Tobacco Control

Volumn 25, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-3

  Samet, Jonathan M ^a   Pentz, Mary Ann ^a   Unger, Jennifer B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAVORING AGENT; MENTHOL;

ADVISORY COMMITTEE; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOBACCO; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

ADVISORY COMMITTEES; FLAVORING AGENTS; HUMANS; MENTHOL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; TOBACCO PRODUCTS;

EID: 84987923263     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2016-053208     Document Type: Editorial

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