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Editorial
. 2015 Sep;43(9):2015-6.
doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000001121.

Primed for Injury: Cigarette Smokers and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

John P Reilly  1 , Jason D Christie
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Editorial

Primed for Injury: Cigarette Smokers and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

John P Reilly et al. Crit Care Med. 2015 Sep.
No abstract available

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest statements for all authors – Drs. Reilly and Christie report receiving research funding from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Christie has also received institutional research funding from GlaxoSmithKline to study sepsis and lung injury.

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