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Technical comment

Vol. 146 No. 2728 (2016)

When federal science is muffling harm reduction by vaping

  • Philippe Poirson
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2016.14331
Cite this as:
Swiss Med Wkly. 2016;146:w14331
Published
03.07.2016

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