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The second report of the Royal College of Physicians of London (331), issued in 1970, concludes that cigarette smoking today is a cause of death as important as were the epidemics of the last century and that from a standpoint of health policy, the consumption of tobacco is the same challenge for humanity today as typhoid fever, cholera, tuberculosis, and other epidemics were in the last century.
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Guntern, G. (1979). Consumption of Tobacco. In: Social Change, Stress and Mental Health in the Pearl of the Alps. Monographien aus dem Gesamtgebiete der Psychiatrie, vol 22. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88191-6_12
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