Young low and middle-income country (LMIC) smokers-implications for global tobacco control

Emily Stone¹, Matthew Peters^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Thoracic Medicine, Kinghorn Cancer Centre, St Vincent's Hospital, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia.
² Department of Respiratory Medicine, Concord Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
³ Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

Editorial

Emily Stone et al. Transl Lung Cancer Res. 2017 Dec.

. 2017 Dec;6(Suppl 1):S44-S46.

doi: 10.21037/tlcr.2017.10.11.

Emily Stone¹, Matthew Peters^{2

3}

¹ Department of Thoracic Medicine, Kinghorn Cancer Centre, St Vincent's Hospital, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia.
² Department of Respiratory Medicine, Concord Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
³ Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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