Quality, originality, and significance of the 1939 "Tobacco consumption and lung carcinoma" article by Mueller, including translation of a section of the paper

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 171-177

  Morabia, Alfredo ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; History; Lung cancer; Smoking

Indexed keywords

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; TOBACCO SMOKE;

CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; LUNG CARCINOMA; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMOKING; SMOKING HABIT;

FEMALE; GERMANY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; RESEARCH REPORT; SMOKING;

EID: 84866044707     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.05.008     Document Type: Review

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