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This address was presented initially as the Sylvia and Herbert Berger Lecture at the New York Academy of Medicine, New York City, April 22, 1999.

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Doll, R. Tobacco: A medical history. J Urban Health 76, 289–313 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02345669

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