Cigarette Smoking, Passive Smoking, Alcohol Consumption, and Hearing Loss
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1525-3961,1438-7573
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-014-0461-0