Table of contents

Original article

• State laws on youth access to tobacco in the United States: measuring their extensiveness with a new rating system (1 December, 1998)

  Marianne H Alciati, Marcy Frosh, Sylvan B Green, Ross C Brownson, Peter H Fisher, Robin Hobart, Adele Roman, Russell C Sciandra, Dana M Shelton
• Gender and ethnic differences in young adolescents’ sources of cigarettes (1 December, 1998)

  Leslie A Robinson, Robert C Klesges, Susan M Zbikowski
• Influence of physician and patient gender on provision of smoking cessation advice in general practice (1 December, 1998)

  Jane M Young, Jeanette E Ward
• Does over-the-counter nicotine replacement therapy improve smokers’ life expectancy? (1 December, 1998)

  William F Lawrence, Stevens S Smith, Timothy B Baker, Michael C Fiore
• Filter ventilation and nicotine content of tobacco in cigarettes from Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States (1 December, 1998)

  Lynn T Kozlowski, Nicholas Y Mehta, Christine T Sweeney, Stephen S Schwartz, George P Vogler, Martin J Jarvis, Robert J West
• Predictors of crop diversification: a survey of tobacco farmers in North Carolina (USA) (1 December, 1998)

  David G Altman, Daniel J Zaccaro, Douglas W Levine, David Austin, Carol Woodell, Betty Bailey, Michael Sligh, Gerry Cohn, James Dunn
• Patterns of smoking in Bulgaria (1 December, 1998)

  Dina Balabanova, Martin Bobak, Martin McKee
• Recognition of cigarette brand names and logos by primary schoolchildren in Ankara, Turkey (1 December, 1998)

  Salih Emri, Tülay Bağcı, Yalçın Karakoca, Enis Barış