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Editorial
. 2014 Jan;88(1):5-7.
doi: 10.1007/s00204-013-1127-0. Epub 2013 Oct 4.

How much nicotine kills a human? Tracing back the generally accepted lethal dose to dubious self-experiments in the nineteenth century

Bernd Mayer  1
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Editorial

How much nicotine kills a human? Tracing back the generally accepted lethal dose to dubious self-experiments in the nineteenth century

Bernd Mayer. Arch Toxicol. 2014 Jan.
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