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. 2001 Sep;10(3):253–257. doi: 10.1136/tc.10.3.253

Swedish Match Company, Swedish snus and public health: a harm reduction experiment in progress?

J HENNINGFIELD 1, K FAGERSTROM 1
PMCID: PMC1747582  PMID: 11544390

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