Environmental tobacco smoke and lung cancer: Uncertainties in the population estimates but not in the causal association — a rejoinder to gross
✍ Scribed by Steven Bayard; Jennifer Jinot; George Flatman
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 444 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1180-4009
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