Menthol cigarettes and mortality: Keeping focus on the public health standard

Nicotine and Tobacco Research

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 617-618

  Villanti, Andrea C ^a,b   Giovino, Gary A ^c   Burns, David M ^d   Abrams, David B ^a,b,e  

^a Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies at Legacy   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG CANCER; MENTHOL CIGARETTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MENTHOL; SMOKING; TOBACCO PRODUCTS;

EID: 84872851320     PISSN: 14622203     EISSN: 1469994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ntr/nts176     Document Type: Letter

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