Death rates of characters in soap operas on British television: is a government health warning required?

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Published in BMJ on February 12, 1998

Authors

T Crayford1, R Hooper, S Evans

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, King's College Hospital, London. t.crayford@kcl.ac.uk

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