Do cigarette graphic warnings encourage smokers to attend a smoking cessation programme: A quasi-experimental study

Tobacco Control

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 43-49

  Guydish, Joseph ^a   Tajima, Barbara ^a   Le, Thao ^a   Henderson, Catherine ^a   Yip, Deborah ^a   Gruber, Valerie ^a   Garcia, Wayne ^b   Delucchi, Kevin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Prototypes   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PACKAGING; PROCEDURES; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SMOKING PREVENTION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOBACCO;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRODUCT LABELING; SMOKERS; SMOKING CESSATION; SMOKING PREVENTION; TOBACCO PRODUCTS;

EID: 85006038126     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2016-053207     Document Type: Article

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