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Community pharmacists' involvement in smoking cessation: familiarity and implementation of the National smoking cessation guideline in Finland

Terhi Kurko1*, Kari Linden2*, Kirsi Pietilä3, Patrick Sandström4 and Marja Airaksinen1

Author Affiliations

1 University of Helsinki, Faculty of Pharmacy, Division of Social Pharmacy, Viikinkaari 9C, P.O Box 56, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland

2 Pfizer Oy, Helsinki, Finland

3 Pharmacy of Malmi, Helsinki, Finland

4 The National Institute of Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

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BMC Public Health 2010, 10:444 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-10-444

Published: 29 July 2010

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Table S1: Examples of studies showing community pharmacists' participation in SC. This file contains an additional table, providing information of the studies of community pharmacists participation in SC.

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Table S2: The Community pharmacists' duties in the treatment chain of SC according to the National SC Guideline [7]. This file contains an additional table proving information about the SC tasks the Guideline requires from community pharmacists.

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