Trends in smoking-related diseases: Why smoking cessation is still the best medicine

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 56-71

  Hays, J Taylor ^a   Dale, Lowell C ^a   Hurt, Richard D ^a   Croghan, Ivana T ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; BETA CAROTENE; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; IPRATROPIUM BROMIDE; NICOTINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; RETINOL PALMITATE; URANIUM;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ATHEROGENESIS; BRONCHITIS; BUERGER DISEASE; CANCER RISK; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; EMBOLISM; EMPHYSEMA; HEART INFARCTION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG CANCER; MORBIDITY; PATHOGENESIS; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING CESSATION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CORONARY DISEASE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 0032438211     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: 19419260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.1998.12.389     Document Type: Article

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