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Addiction Medicine

Estimating the public economic consequences of introducing varenicline smoking cessation therapy in South Korea using a fiscal analytic framework

Mark P. ConnollyUnit of PharmacoEpidemiology & PharmacoEconomics, Department of Pharmacy, University of Groningen, The Netherlands; ;Global Market Access Solutions, St-Prex, Switzerland; Correspondence[email protected] [email protected]
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Christine L. BakerPatient & Health Impact, Pfizer, Inc., New York, NY, USA;
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Nikolaos KotsopoulosGlobal Market Access Solutions, St-Prex, Switzerland; ;Department of Economics, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Pages 571-576 | Received 20 Nov 2017, Accepted 21 Jan 2018, Published online: 13 Feb 2018

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