'Lung cancer and tobacco consumption': Technical evaluation of the 1943 paper by Schairer and Schoeniger published in Nazi Germany

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 208-212

  Morabia, Alfredo ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER; HEALTH RISK; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; TOBACCO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HISTORY; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLICATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; WAR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MANUSCRIPTS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLICATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WORLD WAR II; YOUNG ADULT;

GERMANY;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84875069820     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2012-201853     Document Type: Article

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