Electronic cigarettes: the lesser of two evils, but how much less?

Steven D Shapiro¹, Ata Murat Kaynar^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
² Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
³ The Clinical Research, Investigation, and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness (CRISMA) Center, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Editorial

Steven D Shapiro et al. Thorax. 2016 Dec.

. 2016 Dec;71(12):1080-1081.

doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-209273.

Steven D Shapiro¹, Ata Murat Kaynar^{2

3}

¹ Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
² Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
³ The Clinical Research, Investigation, and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness (CRISMA) Center, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: COPD Pathology.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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