What was the first epidemiological study of smoking and lung cancer?

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 178-180

  Samet, Jonathan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG CARCINOMA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SMOKING HABIT;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; RESEARCH REPORT; SMOKING;

EID: 84866015108     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.06.019     Document Type: Note

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