Journal of Environmental and Public Health
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 795265, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/795265
Research Article

Use of Alternative Tobacco Products in Multiethnic Youth from Jujuy, Argentina

Ethel Alderete,1,2 Celia Patricia Kaplan,3,4 Steven E. Gregorich,3 and Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable3,4

1Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología Regional, El Carmen 719, S.S. de Jujuy, 4600, Argentina
2Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, Argentina
3Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 3333 California Street, Suite 335 San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
4UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, USA

Received 29 July 2009; Accepted 21 January 2010

Academic Editor: Edward Trapido

Copyright © 2010 Ethel Alderete et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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