Public Health
Volume 123, Issue 9 , Pages 628-629 , September 2009

Cigarette-related injuries to young children in the USA, 2002–2007

  • J.T. Quirk

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Received 23 February 2009 ,Accepted 15 July 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2009.07.004

Public Health
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