Who's still smoking? Disparities in adult cigarette smoking prevalence in the United States

CA Cancer Journal for Clinicians

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 106-115

  Drope, Jeffrey ^a   Liber, Alex C ^a   Cahn, Zachary ^a   Stoklosa, Michal ^a   Kennedy, Rosemary ^a   Douglas, Clifford E ^a   Henson, Rosemarie ^a   Drope, Jacqui ^a  

^a AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

health disparities; health inequities; smoking prevalence; tobacco

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALASKA NATIVE; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARMY; ASIAN; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INCOME; LGBT PEOPLE; MALE; PASSIVE SMOKING; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; UNITED STATES; AGED; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH DISPARITY; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 85041185437     PISSN: 00079235     EISSN: 15424863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3322/caac.21444     Document Type: Review

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