Public Health
Volume 123, Issue 8 , Pages 565-567 , August 2009

Associations of diet behaviours and intention to eat healthily with tobacco use among motor freight workers

  • L.M. Quintiliani

      Affiliations

    • Department of Society, Human Development and Health, The Harvard School of Public Health, Center for Community-Based Research Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney St, LW 703, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.:+1 617 582 7462; fax:+1 617 632 4858.
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  • A.M. Stoddard

      Affiliations

    • Center for Statistical Analysis and Research, New England Research Institutes, Watertown, MA, USA
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  • C.B. Ebbeling

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology, Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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  • L.K. Pereira

      Affiliations

    • Department of Society, Human Development and Health, The Harvard School of Public Health, Center for Community-Based Research Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney St, LW 703, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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  • G. Sorensen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Society, Human Development and Health, The Harvard School of Public Health, Center for Community-Based Research Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney St, LW 703, Boston, MA 02115, USA

Received 2 January 2009 ,Revised 5 June 2009 ,Accepted 29 June 2009.

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PII: S0033-3506(09)00175-9

doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2009.06.017

Public Health
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