Does a lung cancer screening programme promote smoking cessation?

Affiliations

¹ Unit of Thoracic Surgery, Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova-IRCCS, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
² Unit of Thoracic Surgery, Azienda Ospedaliera S.Camillo Forlanini, Lazzaro Spallanzani Hospital, Rome, Italy.
³ Division of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.

Editorial

Filippo Lococo et al. Thorax. 2017 Oct.

. 2017 Oct;72(10):870-871.

doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2017-210621. Epub 2017 Jul 26.

¹ Unit of Thoracic Surgery, Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova-IRCCS, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
² Unit of Thoracic Surgery, Azienda Ospedaliera S.Camillo Forlanini, Lazzaro Spallanzani Hospital, Rome, Italy.
³ Division of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.

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Keywords: smoking cessation; tobacco and The lung; tobacco control.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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