Helping smokers quit--opportunities created by the Affordable Care Act

Affiliations

¹ From the Office on Smoking and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (T.M., S.B., S.M.); and the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison (M.C.F.).

Tim McAfee et al. N Engl J Med. 2015.

. 2015 Jan 1;372(1):5-7.

doi: 10.1056/NEJMp1411437. Epub 2014 Nov 19.

¹ From the Office on Smoking and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (T.M., S.B., S.M.); and the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison (M.C.F.).

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Conflict of interest statement

Authors McAfee, Babb, McNabb, and Fiore report no conflicts of interest.

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