Smoking control: challenges and achievements
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Smoking control: challenges and achievements
Smoking is the most preventable and controllable health risk. Therefore, all health care professionals should give their utmost attention to and be more focused on the problem of smoking. Tobacco is a highly profitable product, because of its large-scale production and great number of consumers. Smoking control policies and treatment resources for smoking cessation have advanced in recent years...
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عنوان ژورنال: Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1806-3713
DOI: 10.1590/s1806-37562016000000145