Public Health
Volume 124, Issue 8 , Pages 437-443 , August 2010

Agreement among multiple measures of self-reported smoking status in Chinese urban residents

  • T. Yang

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Tobacco Control Research, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058, China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +86 571 88208219; fax: +86 571 88910855.
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  • I.R.H. Rockett

      Affiliations

    • Injury Control Research Center and Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506-9190, USA
    • ,
  • Y. Wu

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Health Education, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100011, China
    • ,
  • W.W. Chen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Education and Behavior, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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  • Z. Lu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou 221002, China

Received 3 October 2009 ,Revised 8 March 2010 ,Accepted 18 April 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2010.04.005

Public Health
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