Thirdhand Smoke: State of the Science and a Call for Policy Expansion.

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The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) McGovern Medical School, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Houston, TX; UTHealth McGovern Medical School, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Houston, TX.

Published: July 2016

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4765971PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/003335491613100206DOI Listing

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