Smoking and smoking cessation: a major role for the respiratory physician
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Smoking and smoking cessation: a major role for the respiratory physician.
Smoking is now universally recognized as the leading cause of two of the most frequent respiratory diseases, bronchial carcinoma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Despite this evidence, the problems associated with nicotine addiction and smoking cessation occupy a relatively small space in The Journal and at our Annual Congress, which suggests that respiratory physicians are not...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Respiratory Journal
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0000-0000,0903-1936
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.95.08101633