After five years, the World Health Organization's tobacco-control treaty is starting to have an effect, but we need to tackle the smoking epidemic in the developing world, say Jonathan M. Samet and Heather L. Wipfli.
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Samet, J., Wipfli, H. Globe still in grip of addiction. Nature 463, 1020–1021 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/4631020a
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