Regular ArticleRelationship of Organizational Characteristics of Canadian Workplaces to Anti-smoking Initiatives☆,☆☆
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This research was supported in part by a Research Scholar Award from the B.C. Health Research Foundation (C. J. Frankish), Postdoctoral Research Fellowships from the National Health Research Development Program of Health Canada (J. L. Johnson), the Medical Research Council of Canada (P. A. Ratner), and the Sociobehavioral Cancer Research Network of the National Cancer Institute of Canada (C. Lovato). The authors also gratefully acknowledge the direct funding support of the Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute and Health Canada.
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