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Robert Lebow, MD
East Tennessee State University Quillen-Dishner College of Medicine Johnson City

JAMA. 1985;253(20):2959.

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To the Editor.—

We can make a tremendous impact on certain disease and death rates^1-3 and take an impressive step toward solving the hospital cost problem⁴ by requesting, as concerned citizens,⁵ that our largest group of public hospitals, viz, the Veterans Administration hospitals, halt the sale of (tax-exempt, hence tax-supported) cigarettes. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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