Asthma and smoking: still a prevailing topic
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Asthma and smoking: still a prevailing topic.
1. Divisão de Pneumologia, Instituto do Coração, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo (SP) Brasil. In the last 20 years, there has been a significant, progressive decline in the prevalence of smoking in both genders, worldwide(1) and in Brazil,(2) where that decline has been more pronounced. From 1980 to 2012, the worldwide prevalence declined from 41.2% to 31.1% in men...
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عنوان ژورنال: Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1806-3713
DOI: 10.1590/s1806-37562016000200001