Changes in Smoking Habits, 1959-1963.

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  • F PYGOTT
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as a part of normal documentation and the answers given were not questioned by her, in order not to give the examinee an impression that this was other than a normal routine. It was decided to repeat the inquiry again in the same period of 1963, using precisely the same method to see whether there had been any change in smoking habits as a result of the increase in the anti-smoking campaign and the report of the Royal College of Physicians on smoking and lung cancer. On inquiry both in 1959 and in 1963, it was found that very few examinees smoked cigarettes and pipe with equal enjoyment; if they smoked both they were predominately smokers of one or another. If they

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • British journal of preventive & social medicine

دوره 18  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1964