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Smoking, Physical Activity, and Diet in North American Youth

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    Jennifer L. O’Loughlin PhD & Jill Tarasuk MSc

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Acknowledgements: Jennifer O’Loughlin is an Investigator of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. This paper is based on an invited paper presented at the June 2001 Congress of Epidemiology, Toronto, Canada.

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O’Loughlin, J.L., Tarasuk, J. Smoking, Physical Activity, and Diet in North American Youth. Can J Public Health 94, 27–30 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03405048

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