Tobacco use: ending the epidemic.
Nurses should encourage leaders in their health care systems to provide effective tobacco-use treatment and follow up. Nurses also need to support the policy and community interventions that motivate tobacco users to try to quit, create a supportive environment, and provide more intensive interventions for those needing them.
Husten
Corinne G
CG
Partnership for Prevention, Washington, DC, USA.
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