Comparative risk ratings and lung cancer among Norwegian smokers

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 313-320

  Rise, Jostein ^a   Strype, Jon ^b   Sutton, Stephen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comparative risk ratings; Direct and indirect methods; Lung cancer; Smoking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346007411     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16066350211865     Document Type: Article

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