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. 2001 May;55(5):334–335. doi: 10.1136/jech.55.5.334

Smoking in adolescence and young adulthood and mortality in later life: prospective observational study

P McCarron 1, G Smith 1, M Okasha 1, J McEwen 1
PMCID: PMC1731897  PMID: 11297653

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