More than 500 trillion molecules of strong carcinogens per cigarette: Use in product labelling?

Tobacco Control

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 387-

  Hecht, Stephen S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN;

CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; LETTER; PACKAGING; SMOKE; SMOKING; TOBACCO;

CARCINOGENS; HUMANS; PRODUCT LABELING; SMOKE; SMOKING; TOBACCO;

EID: 84860394846     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tc.2011.042853     Document Type: Letter

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