Asbestos, smoking, and lung cancer: interaction and attribution.

Occup Environ Med

Department of Pathology, McGill University Hospital Centre, 1650 Cedar Avenue West, Room C3-157, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1A4.

Published: August 2006

Commentary on the paper by Reid (see page 509)

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