Cigarette smoking: an epidemiological overview

British Medical Bulletin

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3-11

  Wald, Nicholas J ^a   Hackshaw, Allan K ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA ANEURYSM; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RISK; CATARACT; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEUKEMIA; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LUNG CANCER; MALE; PANCREAS CANCER; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT CANCER; REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STOMACH CANCER; STROKE;

EID: 0030033499     PISSN: 00071420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.bmb.a011530     Document Type: Review

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