It is preferable for surgical patients to use e-cigarettes rather than smoke cigarettes

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 348, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Farsalinos, Konstantinos ^a   Voudris, Vassilis ^a  

^a ONASSIS CARDIAC SURGERY CENTER   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; NICOTINE;

HEALTH CARE NEED; HUMAN; LETTER; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SURGICAL PATIENT; WOUND HEALING;

ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MARKETING; TOBACCO PRODUCTS;

EID: 84896925312     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.g1961     Document Type: Letter

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