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Re: Foulds and Ramstrom: Cancer Causes and Control 17: 227–228 (2006) and Henley et al., Cancer Causes and Control 16: 347–358 (2005). How Smokeless Tobacco can Cause Lung Cancer

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Hecht, S.S. Re: Foulds and Ramstrom: Cancer Causes and Control 17: 227–228 (2006) and Henley et al., Cancer Causes and Control 16: 347–358 (2005). How Smokeless Tobacco can Cause Lung Cancer. Cancer Causes Control 17, 859–860 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-006-0021-y

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