Predictors of Physicians' Smoking Cessation Advice
JAMAPublished 11 December 1991
Erica Frank
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It is suggested that physicians still need to increase smoking cessation counseling to all patients, particularly adolescents and other young smokers, minorities, and those without cigarette-related disease.
Abstract
These findings suggest that physicians still need to increase smoking cessation counseling to all patients, particularly adolescents and other young smokers, minorities, and those without cigarette-related disease.
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