Racial disparities in smoking-attributable mortality and years of potential life lost --- Missouri, 2003--2007

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 59, Issue 46, 2010, Pages 1518-1522

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ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CAUSE OF DEATH; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEGRO; NEOPLASM; PASSIVE SMOKING; POLICY; SMOKING; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CAUSE OF DEATH; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MISSOURI; NEOPLASMS; PUBLIC POLICY; SMOKING; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 78649702890     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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