Historical U.S. residential coal use and female lung cancer mortality

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (HERA)

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 369-385

  Cullen, Jennifer ^a   Bogen, Kenneth T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bituminous coal; Ecological design; Epidemiology; Fuel; Smoke; Smoking

Indexed keywords

EID: 26444470939     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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