Cohort study of all-cause mortality among tobacco users in Mumbai, India

Introduction Overall mortality rates are higher among cigarette smokers than non-smokers. However, very little is known about the health effects of other forms of tobacco use widely prevalent in India, such as bidi smoking and various forms of smokeless tobacco (e. g. chewing betel-quid). We therefo...

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Main Authors: Prakash C. Gupta, Hemali C. Mehta
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:English
Publicado: The World Health Organization 2000-07-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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Acceso en liña:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862000000700004&lng=en&tlng=en