Bidi smoking and lung cancer

BioScience Trends

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 41-43

  Prasad, Rajendra ^a   Singhal, Sanjay ^a   Garg, Rajiv ^a  

^a KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Bidi; Cigarette; India; Lung cancer; Smoking

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; REVIEW; SMOKING;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; SMOKING;

EID: 77952497534     PISSN: 18817815     EISSN: 18817823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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