Relative importance of cigarette smoking in occupational lung disease.
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Relative importance of cigarette smoking in occupational lung disease.
Since 1900 respiratory disease has remained a constant serious cause of chronic ill health and premature death in Britain. The falling importance of tuberculosis and pneumonia has been off-set by the rise in lung cancer. Bronchitis morbidity and mortality have fallen only slightly since 1935. To produce any real improvement in the future existing information as to cause must be studied. The rel...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
سال: 1981
ISSN: 1351-0711
DOI: 10.1136/oem.38.1.1