Smoking and ill health: does lay epidemiology explain the failure of smoking cessation programs among deprived populations?

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Published in Am J Public Health on February 01, 2003

Authors

Debbie A Lawlor1, Stephen Frankel, Mary Shaw, Shah Ebrahim, George Davey Smith

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, England. d.a.lawlor@bristol.ac.uk

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