Beliefs About "Light" and "Ultra Light" Cigarettes and Efforts to Change Those Beliefs: an Overview of Early Efforts and Published Research

Overview

Journal Tob Control

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2001 Dec 12

PMID 11740039

Citations 30

Authors

L T Kozlowski

J L Pillitteri

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