Commentary on Wang et al. (2017): Differing patterns of short-term transitions of nondaily smokers for different indicators of socioeconomic status (SES).

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  title={Commentary on Wang et al. (2017): Differing patterns of short-term transitions of nondaily smokers for different indicators of socioeconomic status (SES).},
  author={Martin Lindstr{\"o}m},
  journal={Addiction},
  year={2017},
  volume={112 5},
  pages={
          873-874
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:36108278}
}
An informative analysis of factors associated with short-term transitions of non-daily smokers based on a representative sample of the US population and the observed differences between educational achievement and income as SES indicators, respectively, and their associations with non- daily smoker transitions have several implications.
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