Obesity and smoking habits by social class.
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Obesity and smoking habits by social class.
In a recent paper we reported that there are considerable differences in the body weights of men categorized by their smoking habits (Khosla and Lowe, 1971). In a population of 10,482 steel workers we found that the men who had never smoked were much heavier than the smokers and that the men who had given up smoking for eight or more years were almost as heavy as those who had never smoked. The...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 1972
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.26.4.249