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Activity Number: 28
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Sunday, July 29, 2007 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Health Policy Statistics
Abstract - #310116
Title: Relationship Between Competitiveness of Colleges and Levels of Tobacco Use
Author(s): Yasmin H. Said and Edward Wegman and Samer Ellahham and David Anderson
Companies: George Mason University and George Mason University and Innovative Medical Institute/Paragon Cardiovascular Foundation and
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Keywords: Tobacco ; Competitiveness ; Colleges
Abstract:

This paper describes the relationship between the compositeness of a school and the level of smoking and makes recommendations on which category of smokers anti-smoking campaigns can target to reduce the level of smoking the most for the least amount of money. Data was collected from 15 schools over a period of three years (f2003 to 2005) in the state of Colorado.

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