Public Health
Volume 123, Issue 7 , Pages 496-501 , July 2009

Social capital, political trust and daily smoking and smoking cessation: A population-based study in southern Sweden

Received 21 August 2008 ,Revised 6 April 2009 ,Accepted 17 June 2009.

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