Public Health
Volume 123, Issue 10 , Pages 657-664 , October 2009

Secular trends in adult male smoking from 1992 to 2006 in South Korea: Age-specific changes with evolving tobacco-control policies

  • E.J. Park

      Affiliations

    • School of Public Health and Institute of Health and Environment, Seoul National University, Yeongun-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 110-460, Republic of Korea
    • ,
  • H.K. Koh

      Affiliations

    • Division of Public Health Practice, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
    • ,
  • J.W. Kwon

      Affiliations

    • School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA
    • ,
  • M.K. Suh

      Affiliations

    • Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, Seoul, Republic of Korea
    • ,
  • H. Kim

      Affiliations

    • School of Public Health and Institute of Health and Environment, Seoul National University, Yeongun-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 110-460, Republic of Korea
    • ,
  • S.I. Cho

      Affiliations

    • School of Public Health and Institute of Health and Environment, Seoul National University, Yeongun-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 110-460, Republic of Korea
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +82 2 880 2583; fax: +82 2 882 8632.

Received 27 February 2009 ,Revised 22 August 2009 ,Accepted 15 September 2009.

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