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Urban-rural differences in smoking prevalence in Greece
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Dear Editor,
After perusing the report by Vardavas and Kafatos,1 on smoking policy and prevalence in Greece, we thought that would be of interest to demonstrate the findingsof our study concerning the urban-rural differences in smoking prevalence.
The study was conducted during the recent election day (15
Aristofanis Gikas1, Panagiotis Merkouris2, Eystathios Skliros2 and Alexios Sotiropoulos3
1 Health Centre of Salamis, Salamis Greece
2 Health Centre of Nemea, Nemea Greece
3 Third Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Panteleimon General Hospital of Nikea Nikea-Pireaus, Greece
Correspondence: Aristofanis Gikas M.D., 6 Gavriilidou Street, 11141, Ano Patisia, Athens, Greece, tel: +30 21 0228 6830, fax: +30 21 0465 0150, e-mail: argikas@internet.gr