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Association of Smoking Cessation With Subsequent Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
Submitted by: Mark Ferguson
Source: JAMA
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Author(s): Meredith S. Duncan, Matthew S. Freiberg, Robert A. Greevy Jr, Suman Kundu, Ramachandran S. Vasan, Hilary A. Tindle
