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. 2003 Jan 1;94(1):27–30. doi: 10.1007/BF03405048

Smoking, Physical Activity, and Diet in North American Youth

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Jennifer L O’Loughlin 16,26,✉, Jill Tarasuk 16
PMCID: PMC6979929  PMID: 12583667

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Acknowledgements: Jennifer O’Loughlin is an Investigator of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. This paper is based on an invited paper presented at the June 2001 Congress of Epidemiology, Toronto, Canada.

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