Protecting our children from environmental tobacco smoke: one of our great healthcare challenges
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Protecting our children from environmental tobacco smoke: one of our great healthcare challenges.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the US Surgeon General’s first report on Smoking and Health. This landmark report in 1964 concluded that cigarette smoking is harmful and causes lung and laryngeal cancer. In 1986, the Surgeon General released a further report on the Health Consequences of Involuntary Smoking, providing conclusive evidence that environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Heart Journal
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0195-668X,1522-9645
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehu098