The author of the tobacco industry funded article `The risk of coronary heart disease in nonsmokers exposed to environmental tobacco smoke' argues that previous studies have noted an association because they failed to adjust for confounders, and that the results of three previously unpublished cohor
Environmental tobacco smoke and coronary heart disease
- Book ID
- 117450866
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 90 KB
- Volume
- 35
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0278-6915
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