The effect of the market opening on trends in smoking rates in Taiwan.

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Published in Health Policy on January 13, 2005

Authors

Chih Cheng Hsu1, David Theodore Levy, Chi Pang Wen, Ting Yuan Cheng, Shan Pou Tsai, Ted Chen, Michael P Eriksen, Chen Chun Shu

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Health Policy Research, National Health Research Institutes, Taipei, Taiwan.

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