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August 2007, Vol 97, No. 8 | American Journal of Public Health 1349
© 2007 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.111583

LETTER

LOPEZ-QUINTERO ET AL. RESPOND

Catalina Lopez-Quintero, MD, MPH, Rosa M. Crum, MD, MHS and Yehuda D. Neumark, PhD, MPH

C. Lopez-Quintero and Y. D. Neumark are with the Hebrew University–Hadassah Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel. R. M. Crum is with the Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Yehuda D. Neumark, PhD, Braun School of Public Health & Community Medicine, Hebrew University-Hadassah, P.O. Box 12272, Jerusalem, Israel (e-mail: yehudan@ekmd.huji.ac.il).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

A reduction in smoking rates in the United States represents one of the main public health achievements of the past 3 decades. Multiple strategies for smoking cessation at the macro level (e.g., restricted access to tobacco and restricted exposure to tobacco-promoting messages) and to a somewhat lesser extent at the individual level (e.g., behavioral and pharmacological cessation strategies) have contributed to this success.1,2 These interventions, however, have not been disseminated uniformly throughout the population, as reflected by smoking trends1 and physician-provided smoking cessation advice to patients across racial groups.3

Levinson et al. have shown that Hispanic smokers are less likely . . . [Full Text]






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