Response to Winter: 'Hardcore smoking does not necessarily indicate hardening'.
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This is a post-print (post-refereed, final accepted) version of the manuscript that has been published in Addiction. The citation details and the link to the final publisher version are below. Docherty, G., McNeill, A., Gartner, C. E. and Szatkowski, L. (2014), Response to Winter: ‘Hardcore smoking does not necessarily indicate hardening’. Addiction, 109: 682. doi: 10.1111/add.12462 Published online: 7 FEB 2014.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Addiction
دوره 109 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014