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Tobacco smoking trends in Samoa over four decades: can continued globalization rectify that which it has wrought?
BACKGROUND: The island country of Samoa (population 188,000 in 2011) forms part of Polynesia in the South Pacific. Over the past several decades Samoa has experienced exceptional modernization and globalization of many sectors of society, with noncommunicable diseases (NCD) now the leading cause of...
Autores principales: | Linhart, Christine, Naseri, Take, Lin, Sophia, Taylor, Richard, Morrell, Stephen, McGarvey, Stephen T, Magliano, Dianna J, Zimmet, Paul |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5469026/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28606163 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12992-017-0256-2 |
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