Erratum to: Does South Korea have hidden female smokers: discrepancies in smoking rates between self-reports and urinary cotinine level
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Author details Department of Health Administration, Yonsei University, Gangwon-Do, Republic of Korea. Department of Preventive Medicine, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, 162 Ilsan-Dong, Wonju-City, Gangwon-Do 220-701, Republic of Korea. Yonsei University Institute for Poverty Alleviation and International Development, Gangwon-Do, Republic of Korea. Healthy City Research Center, Institute of Health and Welfare, Yonsei University, Gangwon-Do, Republic of Korea. Korea Health Promotion Foundation, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
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Does South Korea have hidden female smokers: discrepancies in smoking rates between self-reports and urinary cotinine level
BACKGROUND Female smoking is perceived very negatively in East Asian countries such as South Korea, Japan, and China, as well as in Islamic countries. These countries' self-reported surveys (SRs) tend to produce results that underestimate the number of smokers, owing to the social desirability response bias. The present study seeks to assess South Korea, Europe, and the Americas, by comparing d...
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