Tobacco - The growing epidemic

Nature Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 15-17

  Peto, Richard ^a   Chen, Zheng Ming ^a   Boreham, Jillian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINA; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; HUMANS; PLANTS, TOXIC; SMOKING; TOBACCO;

EID: 0032974241     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/4691     Document Type: Article

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