Tobacco control in Africa

Affiliations

¹ Office on Smoking and Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States. Electronic address: iaa2@cdc.gov.
² Office on Smoking and Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States.
³ Regional Office for Africa, World Health Organization, Brazzaville, Congo.

Editorial

Indu B Ahluwalia et al. Prev Med. 2016 Oct.

. 2016 Oct:91S:S1.

doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2016.07.001. Epub 2016 Jul 3.

¹ Office on Smoking and Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States. Electronic address: iaa2@cdc.gov.
² Office on Smoking and Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States.
³ Regional Office for Africa, World Health Organization, Brazzaville, Congo.

No abstract available

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