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Use of an age-period-cohort model to reveal the impact of cigarette smoking on trends in Twentieth-century adult cohort mortality in England and Wales

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Pages 259-277 | Received 19 May 2011, Accepted 07 Nov 2011, Published online: 22 May 2012

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