Quitline utilization rates of African-American and white smokers: the California experience.
Summary of "Quitline utilization rates of African-American and white smokers: the California experience."
To compare the utilization rate of a statewide tobacco quitline by African-American smokers to that of white smokers.
Affiliation
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0905, USA. szhu@ucsd.edu
Journal Details
This article was published in the following journal.
Name: American journal of health promotion : AJHP
ISSN: 0890-1171
Pages: S51-8
Links
- PubMed Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21510787
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4278/ajhp.100611-QUAN-185
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