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  • Solkowitz, SN
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  • Cardiac Nurse Specialist North Middlesex Hospital, London, UK

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Source of funding: in part, the California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, Oakland.

For article reprint: Dr J A Simon, General Internal Medicine Section (111A1), Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 4150 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA, 94121 USA. Fax +1 415 386 4044.

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