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Impact of smokeless tobacco use on smoking in northern Sweden

  1. B. Rodu1,
  2. B. Stegmayr2,
  3. S. Nasic2,
  4. K. Asplund2

Article first published online: 22 OCT 2002

DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2796.2002.01057.x

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Journal of Internal Medicine

Journal of Internal Medicine

Volume 252, Issue 5, pages 398–404, November 2002

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Rodu, B., Stegmayr, B., Nasic, S. and Asplund, K. (2002), Impact of smokeless tobacco use on smoking in northern Sweden. Journal of Internal Medicine, 252: 398–404. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2796.2002.01057.x

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  1. 1

    From the Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA; and

  2. 2

    The Department of Medicine, University Hospital, Umeå, Sweden

*  Brad Rodu, SDB 81, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-0007, USA (fax: +1 205 975 5200; e-mail: rodu@uab.edu).

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 22 OCT 2002
  2. Article first published online: 22 OCT 2002
  3. Received 8 July 2002; revision received 3 September 2002; accepted 10 September 2002.

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