Developing asthma in childhood from exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke: insights from a meta-regression.

Cien Saude Colet

Air Toxicology and Epidemiology Branch, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, California Environmental Protection Agency, Oakland, CA 94612, USA.

Published: January 2009


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