California's Proposition 99 on Tobacco, and its Impact
Annual Review of Public HealthPublished 1 May 1993
Lester Breslow, Michael D. Johnson
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Tobacco consumption, especially in the form of cigarette smoking, continues toward the year 2000 as the great pestilence of the twentieth century as the largest single preventable cause of mortality for people in the United States.
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