A Tobacco-Specific Lung Carcinogen in the Urine of Men Exposed to Cigarette Smoke
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- 18 November 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 329 (21), 1543-1546
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199311183292105
Abstract
Environmental tobacco smoke has been classified by the Environmental Protection Agency as a carcinogen causally associated with lung cancer in adults, but there have been no reports of lung carcinogens or their metabolites in the body fluids or tissues of nonsmokers exposed to environmental tobacco smoke.Keywords
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