Public Health
Volume 122, Issue 8 , Pages 762-766 , August 2008

After the smoke has cleared—Reflections on Scotland's tobacco control legislation

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 This paper is a revised version of the paper presented at the Public Health session at the American Public Health Association conference in Washington, D.C, May 2007.

PII: S0033-3506(08)00074-7

doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2008.03.003

Public Health
Volume 122, Issue 8 , Pages 762-766 , August 2008