Journal of Emergency Nursing
Volume 32, Issue 5 , Pages 370-381 , October 2006

Tobacco Control Interventions in the Emergency Department: A Joint Statement of Emergency Medicine Organizations

Received 21 November 2005 ,Revised 8 February 2006 ,Accepted 14 February 2006.

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 Supervising editors: Kathy J. Rinnert, MD, MPH: Michael L. Callaham, MD

 Funding and support: Supported by a grant from the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

 Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0099-1767(06)00415-6

doi: 10.1016/j.jen.2006.06.006

Journal of Emergency Nursing
Volume 32, Issue 5 , Pages 370-381 , October 2006

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