Pediatrician Interventions and Thirdhand Smoke Beliefs of Parents
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Thirdhand smoke beliefs of parents.
OBJECTIVE To determine if the belief that thirdhand smoke is harmful to children is associated with smoking parents' attitudes, home or car smoking policies, and quitting behaviors. METHODS Data from a national randomized controlled trial, Clinical Effort Against Secondhand Smoke Exposure, assessed thirdhand smoke beliefs of 1947 smoking parents in an exit survey after a pediatric office visi...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Preventive Medicine
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0749-3797
DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2012.07.020