The 'healthy smoker': a phenomenon of health selection?

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Published in Respiration on January 01, 1990

Authors

M R Becklake1, U Lalloo

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

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