Lancet: Climate Change is Passive Smoking on a Global Scale

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By Richard LittlemoreDec 13, 2009, 2:07 pm14 pts
In a comment piece entitled Climate Policy: Lessons from Tobacco Control, the medical journal The Lancet, Maria Nilsson, et al, point out the similarities between tobacco and climate change: “In addition to causing huge damage to population health, both cause substantial adverse social, economic, equity, and…

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