Two Surgeon General's reports on smoking and cancer: A historical investigation of the practice of causal inference

Emerging Themes in Epidemiology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-11

  Parascandola, Mark ^a   Weed, Douglas L ^a   Dasgupta, Abhijit ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZO[A]PYRENE;

BLADDER CANCER; CANCER; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CARCINOGENIC ACTIVITY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; EMPIRICISM; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; INTERNAL MEDICINE; LARYNX CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICIAN; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; SMOKING; SMOKING HABIT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TOBACCO; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

EID: 31544438820     PISSN: 17427622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-7622-3-1     Document Type: Review

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