Are we 'MPOWERing' the youth of Africa to stop smoking?

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pulmonology and Department of Critical Care Medicine, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Editorial

Ismail S Kalla. Afr J Thorac Crit Care Med. 2019.

. 2019 Jul 31;25(2):10.7196/AJTCCM.2019.v25i2.021.

doi: 10.7196/AJTCCM.2019.v25i2.021. eCollection 2019.

¹ Department of Pulmonology and Department of Critical Care Medicine, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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