Revisiting the association between environmental tobacco smoke exposure and lung cancer risk: I. The dose-response relationship with amount and duration of smoking by the husband

Indoor and Built Environment

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 303-316

  Fry, John S ^a   Lee, Peter N ^a  

^a PN Lee Statistics and Computing Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dose response; Environmental tobacco smoke; Lung cancer; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000780577     PISSN: 1420326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1420326X0000900602     Document Type: Article

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