Public Health
Volume 123, Issue 9 , Pages 598-601 , September 2009

Smoking prevalence: A comparison of two American surveys

  • B. Rodu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 502 852 7793; fax: +1 502 852 4311.
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  • P. Cole

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-0022, USA

Received 5 March 2009 ,Revised 27 July 2009 ,Accepted 29 July 2009.

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PII: S0033-3506(09)00207-8

doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2009.07.014

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